The American cities and technology reader : wilderness to wired city /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge in association with Open University, 1999. |
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| Description: | ix, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cities and technology series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3964511 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- Introduction
- 1. The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape
- 2. Spanish Legacy in the Borderlands
- 3. The Laws of the Indies
- 4. St. Augustine, Florida
- 5. Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California
- 6. French Landscapes in North America
- 7. New Orleans
- 8. The Northeast and the Making of American Geographical Habits
- 9. Timber Framing in Colonial America
- 10. Masonry Construction in Colonial America
- 11. Chicago: Nature's Metropolis
- 12. Comparative Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914
- 13. The Trolley and Suburbanization
- 14. The Revolution in Street Pavements, 1880-1924
- 15. The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s
- 16. The Minimum House
- 17. Light, Height, and Site: the skyscraper in Chicago
- 18. Decisions about Wastewater Technology, 1850-1932
- 19. Refuse Pollution and Municipal Reform: the waste problem in America, 1880-1917
- 20. "The Best Lighted City in the World": the construction of a nocturnal landscape in Chicago
- 21. Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars
- 22. Transport: maker and breaker of cities
- 23. Order in Diversity: community without propinquity
- 24. Squaring the Circle: can we resolve the Clarkian paradox?
- 25. New Highways
- 26. Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late Twentieth Century
- 27. Cities and their Airports: policy formation, 1926-1952
- 28. The Growth of the City
- 29. Boston's Highway 128: high-technology reindustrialization
- 30. The Role of Information Technology in the Planning and Development of Singapore
- 31. Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City
- Acknowledgements
- Index