| Introduction |
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| The Cities and Technology series |
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| Definitions |
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| American cities and technology |
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| Conventions and acknowledgements |
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| References |
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| Conversion table: imperial/metric units |
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| Abbreviations of US states |
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The pattern of urbanization |
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Periodization of city development? |
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7 | (2) |
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Characteristics of US cities |
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9 | (1) |
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Industrialization and urbanization |
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10 | (1) |
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Technology and the development of cities |
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11 | (3) |
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12 | (2) |
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Transport and the nineteenth-century city |
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14 | (39) |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (9) |
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28 | (13) |
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Mass transport and the late nineteenth-century city |
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41 | (12) |
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43 | (8) |
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51 | (2) |
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Transport in the twentieth-century city - automobility |
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53 | (40) |
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53 | (1) |
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The emergence of the motor car |
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54 | (4) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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Accommodating the motor car in the city |
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61 | (12) |
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The motor car and suburbanization |
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73 | (2) |
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The motor car and public transport |
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75 | (5) |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (11) |
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83 | (7) |
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90 | (3) |
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Building types and construction |
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93 | (48) |
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93 | (11) |
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104 | (15) |
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Electricity and buildings |
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119 | (6) |
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Buildings and the motor car |
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125 | (6) |
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Buildings of tomorrow - or yesterday? |
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131 | (10) |
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132 | (6) |
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138 | (3) |
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Technologies of water, waste and pollution |
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141 | (32) |
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141 | (1) |
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141 | (6) |
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147 | (7) |
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Refuse disposal and street cleaning |
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154 | (6) |
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160 | (4) |
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Water, waste and pollution in the development of the city |
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164 | (9) |
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165 | (6) |
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171 | (2) |
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Technology and the governance of cities |
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173 | (28) |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (3) |
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176 | (5) |
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181 | (9) |
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190 | (11) |
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190 | (9) |
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199 | (2) |
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The `car crisis' in the late twentieth-century city |
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201 | (33) |
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201 | (1) |
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Changes in the density of cities in the twentieth century |
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202 | (6) |
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Growth in car use in the USA and Britain |
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208 | (4) |
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Transport technology and urban form |
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212 | (5) |
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217 | (5) |
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Motor vehicles and photochemical smog |
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222 | (3) |
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The contribution of transport fuels to global warming |
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225 | (3) |
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Getting people out of their cars |
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228 | (6) |
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232 | (2) |
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Telecommunications and cities since 1840 |
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234 | (27) |
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234 | (3) |
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`What hath God wrought?' The electric telegraph |
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237 | (5) |
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`Watson, are you there?' Bell and the telephone |
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242 | (5) |
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The telephone and the office building |
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247 | (1) |
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The telephone: an agent of urban dispersal or of urban concentration? |
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248 | (1) |
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Growth in global telecommunications and information technology after the Second World War |
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249 | (4) |
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The death of distance prematurely announced? |
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253 | (8) |
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258 | (3) |
| Index |
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261 | (7) |
| Acknowledgements |
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