Titre et auteur:

The European cities and technology reader : industrial to post-industrial city / edited by David Goodman.

Publication:

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

Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Série(s):

Cities and technology series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. 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 Industrialization / C.F. Young. 4. Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation / John R. Kellett. 5. The Case 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 Industrialising 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 -- pt. 2. 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 / 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 Houses in Post-war Britain / R.B. White. 28. Urban Reconstruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany / Jeffry M. Diefendorf -- pt. 3. 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.

Résumé:

"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.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415200814 (hardcover)
9780415200813 (hardcover)
0415200822 (pbk.)
9780415200820 (pbk.)
0415200792
9780415200790
0415200806
9780415200806

Sujet:

Europa
Technology Social aspects Europe History.
Urbanization Europe History.
Technologie Aspect social Europe Histoire.
Urbanisation Europe Histoire.
Technology Social aspects
Urbanization
Geschichte
Stadt
Technischer Fortschritt
Verstädterung
Aufsatzsammlung
Urbanisatie.
Technologie.
Industrialisatie.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Cities and towns Europe History.
Europe
Großbritannien

Classification/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Vedettes secondaires:

Goodman, David C.
Cities and technology series.

European cities & technology reader

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 204110
Cote: T14.5 .E955 1999
Statut: Disponible