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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mikael Hård; Thomas J Misa |
| ISBN: | 9780262083690 0262083698 |
| OCLC Number: | 85851589 |
| Description: | viii, 351 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Inside technology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Mikael Hård and Thomas J. Misa. |
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"By placing technology at the center of its historical narratives, the volume provides original insights into some of the most crucial episodes of modern urban history. Its focus on the tension between circulation and appropriation also connects the work presented here with more general debates in the social sciences about the role of place in the context of modernization and globalization. Similarly, historians of science who are interested in the circulation of scientific knowledge and objects or, more specifically, the relation between knowledge and cities will be able to draw much inspiration from Urban Machinery." Jens Lachmund ISIS Read more...
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- Technology -- Europe -- History.
- City and town life -- Europe -- History.
- Technologie -- Europe -- Histoire.
- Vie urbaine -- Europe -- Histoire.
- Stadsplanning.
- Stadsvernieuwing.
- Technische ontwikkeling.
- Sociale verandering.
- Stadscultuur.
- Europa (geografie)
- Stadtleben.
- Technischer Fortschritt.
- Stadtentwicklung.
- Europa.
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