European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities: Goodman, David : 9780415200813: Book: History: eCampus.com

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. The book has been compiled as a reference source for students, and offers the reader a deeper understanding of the historical role of technological change in urban development.

List of figures and tables

vii

(2)

Introduction

Part 1: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870)

(110)

1 Industry and Urban Form in Eighteenth-century Merthyr

(5)

Chris Evans

2 Merthyr Tydfil in the Mid-nineteenth Century: the struggle for public health

(7)

R. K. Grant

3 Increasing Fire-risks in Cities in an Age of Industrialization

(4)

C. F. Young

4 Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation

(10)

John R. Kellett

5 The Case Against the Historical Inevitability of Suburbs

(7)

F. M. L. Thompson

6 The Development of Manchester's Industrial Region

(7)

F. Vigier

7 Water for Manchester

(6)

J. A. Hassan

E. R. Wilson

8 Urban Growth in Industrialising Scotland, 1750-1840

(5)

T. M. Devine

9 Improving the Clyde: the eighteenth-century phase

(8)

John F. Riddell

10 Glasgow and the Clyde

(7)

John F. Riddell

11 Letter to Glasgow Town Council: proposal for Glasgow's water-supply from Loch Katrine

(4)

W. J. Macquorn Rankine

J. Thompson

12 Productive Metropolis: London's industrial contribution

(5)

Roy Porter

13 The London Milk Trade, 1860-1900

(5)

E. H. Whetham

14 London's Milk Supply, 1850-1900: a reinterpretation

(3)

David Taylor

15 The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845-1914

(5)

P. J. Atkins

16 Manufacturing in the Metropolis: the dynamism and dynamics of Parisian industry at the mid-nineteenth century

(12)

Barrie M. Ratcliffe

17 A New Sewer-system for Paris

105

(6)

David H. Pinkney

Part 2: European Cities since 1870

111

(132)

18 Urban Transport and the Development of Glasgow's West End, 1830-1914

116

(9)

Michael Simpson

19 The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City

125

(14)

Richard J. Butterfield

20 The British Post-war Tower Block: technology and politics

139

(15)

Miles Glendinning

Stefan Muthesius

21 Solving late-Victorian London's Traffic Problems

154

(7)

Sir John Wolfe Barry

22 Building Selfridge's: construction on an American scale in a London setting

161

(14)

Jeanne Catherine Lawrence

23 Paris and the Automobile

175

(11)

Norma Evenson

24 The Paris Metro

186

(14)

Norma Evenson

25 The Metropolis as a Construction: engineering structures in Berlin 1871-1914

200

(11)

Hans Kollhoff

26 Berlin: technological metropolis

211

(10)

Thomas P. Hughes

27 Prefabricated Houses in Post-war Britain

221

(7)

R. B. White

28 Urban Reconstruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany

228

(15)

Jeffry M. Diefendorf

Part 3: Urban Technology Transfer

243

(46)

29 The Development of Public Transportation in St Petersburg, 1860-1914

245

(10)

James H. Bater

30 The Moscow Metro: product of indigenous technology or Western influence?

255

(7)

Michael Robbins

31 Housing the Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1955-90: the tyranny of technology

262

(11)

Blair A. Ruble

32 Allahabad: a sanitary history

273

(16)

J. B. Harrison

Acknowledgements

289

(3)

Index

292


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