The European cities & technology reader : industrial to post-industrial city /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge in association with The Open University, 1999. |
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| Description: | x, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cities and technology Cities & technology. |
| Subject: | Technology -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History. Urbanization -- Europe -- History. Technology -- Social aspects. Urbanization. Europe. History. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3785018 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- 7. Water for Manchester
- 8. Urban Growth in Industrialising Scotland, 1750-1840
- 9. Improving the Clyde: the eighteenth-century phase
- 10. Glasgow and the Clyde
- 11. Letter to Glasgow Town Council: proposal for Glasgow's water-supply from Loch Katrine
- 12. Productive Metropolis: London's industrial contribution
- 13. The London Milk Trade, 1860-1900
- 14. London's Milk Supply, 1850-1900: a reinterpretation
- 15. The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845-1914
- 16. Manufacturing in the Metropolis: the dynamism and dynamics of Parisian industry at the mid-nineteenth century
- Introduction
- 17. A New Sewer-system for Paris
- Part 2. European Cities since 1870
- 18. Urban Transport and the Development of Glasgow's West End, 1830-1914
- 19. The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City
- 20. The British Post-war Tower Block: technology and politics
- 21. Solving late-Victorian London's Traffic Problems
- 22. Building Selfridge's: construction on an American scale in a London setting
- 23. Paris and the Automobile
- 24. The Paris Metro
- 25. The Metropolis as a Construction: engineering structures in Berlin 1871-1914
- Part 1. Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870)
- 26. Berlin: technological metropolis
- 27. Prefabricated Houses in Post-war Britain
- 28. Urban Reconstruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany
- Part 3. Urban Technology Transfer
- 29. The Development of Public Transportation in St Petersburg, 1860-1914
- 30. The Moscow Metro: product of indigenous technology or Western influence?
- 31. Housing the Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1955-90: the tyranny of technology
- 32. Allahabad: a sanitary history
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- 1. Industry and Urban Form in Eighteenth-century Merthyr
- 2. Merthyr Tydfil in the Mid-nineteenth Century: the struggle for public health
- 3. Increasing Fire-risks in Cities in an Age of Industrialization
- 4. Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation
- 5. The Case Against the Historical Inevitability of Suburbs
- 6. The Development of Manchester's Industrial Region