Title & Author:

The American cities and technology reader : wilderness to wired city / edited by Gerrylynn K. Roberts.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge in association with the Open University, 1999.

Description:

ix, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Series:

The Cities and technology series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1 The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape / Karl W. Butzer 3 -- 2 Spanish Legacy in the Borderlands / David Hornbeck 17 -- 3 The Laws of the Indies / John W. Reps 25 -- 4 St. Augustine, Florida / John W. Reps 28 -- 5 Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California / John W. Reps 32 -- 6 French Landscapes in North America / Cole Harris 38 -- 7 New Orleans / John W. Reps 44 -- 8 The Northeast and the Making of American Geographical Habits / Peirce F. Lewis 49 -- 9 Timber Framing in Colonial America / Carl W. Condit 62 -- 10 Masonry Construction in Colonial America / Carl W. Condit 71 -- 11 Chicago: Nature's Metropolis / William Cronon 75 -- 12 Comparative Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914 / John P. McKay 88 -- 13 The Trolley and Suburbanization / Kenneth T. Jackson 98 -- 14 The Revolution in Street Pavements, 1880-1924 / Clay McShane 107 -- 15 The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s / Mark S. Foster 117 -- 16 The Minimum House / Greg Hise 126 -- 17 Light, Height, and Site: the skyscraper in Chicago / Carol Willis 139 -- 18 Decisions about Wastewater Technology, 1850-1932 / Joel Tarr 154 -- 19 Refuse Pollution and Municipal Reform: the waste problem in America, 1880-1917 / Martin Melosi 163 -- 20 "The Best Lighted City in the World": the construction of a nocturnal landscape in Chicago / Mark J. Bouman 173 -- 21 Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars / David A. Johnson 188 -- 22 Transport: maker and breaker of cities / Colin Clark 196 -- 23 Order in Diversity: community without propinquity / Melvin W. Webber 201 -- 24 Squaring the Circle: can we resolve the Clarkian paradox? / Peter Hall 211 -- 25 New Highways / James Martin 225 -- 26 Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late Twentieth Century / Barney Warf 230 -- 27 Cities and their Airports: policy formation, 1926-1952 / Paul Barrett 247 -- 28 The Growth of the City / Ernest W. Burgess 259 -- 29 Boston's Highway 128: high-technology reindustrialization / Manuel Castells, Peter Hall 264 -- 30 The Role of Information Technology in the Planning and Development of Singapore / Kenneth E. Corey 272 -- 31 Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City / William H. Dutton, Jay G. Blumler, Kenneth L. Kraemer 280.

Summary:

"Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s. Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecommunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered: the rise of the skyscraper; the coming of the automobile age; relations between private and public transport; the development of infrastructural technologies and systems; the implications of electronic communications; and the emergence of city planning."--Publisher' website.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415200857 (hbk.)
9780415200851 (hbk.)
0415200865 (pbk.)
9780415200868 (pbk.)
0415200830
9780415200837
0415200849 (pbk.)
9780415200844 (pbk.)

Subject:

Technology Social aspects United States History.
Urbanization United States History.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire.
Technology Social aspects.
Urbanization.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Technische ontwikkeling.
Urbanisatie.
Cities and towns United States History.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Roberts, Gerrylynn K.
Open University.
Cities and technology series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203677
Call No.: T14.5 .A45 1999
Status: Available