1st Edition
European Cities and Technology Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities
376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
Cities & Technology , a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of historical evidence anda focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of... Read more
Part 1: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870) 1. The onset of Industrialisation 2. Britain's Industrial North: Two Urban Case Studies: Manchester and Glasgow 3. Two Capitals: London and Paris Part 2: European Cities since 1870 4. The Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern urban planning 5. London and Paris 6. A short history of everyday Berlin 1871-1989 7. Reconstruction: new ways of building and government sponsorship 8. Case study of Milton Keynes Part 3: Urban Technology Transfer 9. Cities in Russia 10. Colonial India
Biography
David Goodman and Colin Chant are both lecturers in the department of History of Science and Technology at the Open University.
"Excellent in-depth studies....staggering inter-disciplinary scope" Phil Hubbard, Loughborough University
