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Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940 book cover

1st Edition

Urban Histories of Science Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940

Edited By Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan Copyright 2019
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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This book tells ten urban histories of science from nine cities—Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Dublin (2 articles), Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Naples—situated on the geographical margins of Europe and beyond. Ranging from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, the contents of this volume debate why and how we should study the scientific culture of cities, often... Read more
 

List of Figures vii



Notes on Contributors x



Preface xiv



Urban Histories of Science: How to Tell the Tale



Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan



1 Envisioning a New European Metropolis: Designing the Athens Observatory (1842)



Maria Rentetzi and Spiros Flevaris



2 Institutionalizing the “Metropolis of Mechanics”: Philosophical Engineering in the City of Glasgow c. 1820–c. 1875



Ben Marsden



3 The Natural Sciences and Their Public at the Meetings of the Hungarian Association for the Advancement of Science in Budapest and Beyond, 1841–1896



Katalin Stráner



4 Copepods and Fisher Boys: Advanced Marine Biological Research and Street Poverty in Naples c. 1890



Katharina Steiner



5 Locating Dublin in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ether



Tanya O’Sullivan



6 Second City of Science? Dublin as a Center of Calculation in the British Imperial Context, 1886–1912



Juliana Adelman



7 From Capital City to Scientific Capital: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Lisbon as Seen through the Press, 1900–1910



Ana Simões



8 Collective Expertise behind the Urban Planning of Munkkiniemi and Haaga, Helsinki (c. 1915)



Emilia Karppinen



9 On Hygiene in a Modern Peripheral City: Buenos Aires, 1870–1940



Diego Armus



10 From Electricity to the Photo Archive: National Identity and the Planning of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition



Lucila Mallart



Index

Biography

Oliver Hochadel is based at the IMF-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona.



Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.



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