| Description |
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Cities and technology series |
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Chant, Colin.
Cities and technology
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Cities and technology series.
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| Contents |
Part One. Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870). 1. Industry and Urban Form in eighteenth-century Merthyr / Chris Evans -- 2. Merthyr Tydfil in the mid-nineteenth century: the struggle for public health / R.K. Grant -- 3. Increasing Fire-risks in Cities in an Age of Industrialisation / C.F. Young -- 4. Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation / John R. Kellett -- 5. The Care Against the Historical Inevitability of Suburbs / F.M.L. Thompson -- 6. The Development of Manchester's Industrial Region / F.Vigier -- 7. Water for Manchester / J.A. Hassan and E.R. Wilson -- 8. Urban Growth in Industrializing Scotland, 1750-1840 / T.M. Devine -- 9. Improving the Clyde: the eighteenth-century phase / John F. Riddell -- 10. Glasgow and the Clyde / John F. Riddell -- 11. Letter to Glasgow Town Council: Proposal for Glasgow's water-supply from Loch Katrine / W.J. Macquorn Rankine and J. Thompson -- 12. Productive Metropolis: London's industrial contribution / Roy Porter -- 13. The London Milk Trade, 1860-1900 / E.H. Whetham -- 14. London's Milk Supply, 1850-1900: a reinterpretation / David Taylor -- 15. The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845-1914 / P.J. Atkins -- 16. Manufacturing in the Metropolis: the Dynamism and Dynamics of Parisian Industry at the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Barrie M. Ratcliffe -- 17. A New Sewer-system for Paris / David H. Pinkney |
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Part Two. European Cities since 1870. 18. Urban Transport and the Development of Glasgow's West End, 1830-1914 / Michael Simpson -- 19. The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City / Richard J. Butterfield -- 20. The British Post-war Tower Block: technology and politics / Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius -- 21. Solving late-Victorian London's Traffic Problems / Sir John Wolfe Barry -- 22. Building Selfridge's: construction on an American scale in a London setting / Jeanne Catherine Lawrence -- 23. Paris and the Automobile / Norma Evenson -- 24. The Paris Metro / Norma Evenson -- 25. The Metropolis as a Construction: engineering structures in Berlin 1871-1914 / Hans Kollhoff -- 26. Berlin: technological metropolis / Thomas P. Hughes -- 27. Prefabricated House in Post-war Britain / R.B. White -- 28. Urban Recontruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany / Jeffrey M. Diefendort |
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Part Three. Urban Technology Transfer. 29. The Development of Public Transportation in St. Petersburg, 1860-1914 / James H. Bater -- 30. The Moscow Metro: product of indigenous technology or Western influence? / Michael Robbins -- 31. Housing the Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1955-90: the tyranny of technology / Blair A. Ruble -- 32. Allahabad: a sanitary history / J.B. Harrison |
| Summary |
"The European Cities and Technology Reader is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870), European Cities since 1870 and the Urban Technology Transfer." -- Publisher's website |
| Notes |
Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying textbook, European cities & technology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Technology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Urbanization -- Europe -- History.
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| Author |
Goodman, David C.
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
98038748 |
| ISBN |
0415200814 hardcover |
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0415200822 paperback |
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