Title & Author:

Urban machinery : inside modern European cities / edited by Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

viii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Inside technology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-336) and index.
Modernizing European cities : technological uniformity and cultural distinction / Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa -- Taming the Rhine : economic connection and urban competition / Cornelis Disco -- Arenas of experimentation : modernizing Istanbul in the late Ottoman empire / Noyan Dinçkal -- Appropriating the international style : modernism in East and West / Thomas J. Misa -- Spectacles of sociability : European cities as sites of consumption / Paolo Capuzzo -- Progressive dreams : the German city in Britain and the United States / Mikael Hård and Marcus Stippak -- Constructing Dutch streets : a melting pot of European technologies / Hans Buiter -- Empowering European cities : gas and electricity in the urban environment / Dieter Schott -- In the shadow of the factory : steel towns in postwar Eastern Europe / Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast -- Science in the city : European traditions and American models / Martina Hessler -- Between theory and practice : planning socialist cities in Hungary / Pál Germuska -- Mediators of modernity : planning experts and the making of the "car-friendly" city in Europe / Per Lundin -- Greening the city : urban environmentalism from Mumford to Malmö / Andrew Jamison.

Summary:

"Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over the last century and a half. Written by leading scholars from the history of technology, urban history, and the sociology of science and technology, the book views the European city as a complex construct entangled with technology. The chapters examine the increasing similarity of modern cities and their technical infrastructures (including communication, energy, industrial, and transportation systems) and the resulting tension between homogenization and cultural differentiation. The contributors emphasize the concept of circulation - the process by which architectural ideas, urban planning principles, engineering concepts, and societal models spread across Europe as well as from the United States to Europe."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780262083690 (hardcover)
0262083698 (hardcover)

Subject:

Europa
Technology Europe History.
City and town life Europe History.
Technologie Europe Histoire.
Vie urbaine Europe Histoire.
City and town life
Technology
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtleben
Technischer Fortschritt
Stadsplanning.
Stadsvernieuwing.
Technische ontwikkeling.
Sociale verandering.
Stadscultuur.
Teknikhistoria Europa.
Stadsliv historia Europa.
Europe
Europa (geografie)
geschiedenis
history
technologie
technology
technische vooruitgang
technical progress
stedelijke samenleving
urban society
steden
towns
stadsomgeving
urban environment
europa
europe
Economic, Social, and Cultural History of Europe
Economische, sociale en cultuurgeschiedenis van Europa

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Hård, Mikael.
Misa, Thomas J.
Inside technology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255225
Call No.: BIB 185329
Status: Available