Science and the City

by Dierig, Sven; Lachmund, Jens; Meldelsohn, J. Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780226148397
• ISBN10: 0226148394
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Seeking to unite the history of science and urban history, this book emphasizes the active role cities play in shaping both scientific practice and scientific knowledge. Furthermore, the authors argue that cities themselves have to be viewed as mediated by science. Four interconnections of science and the city are discussed: the relationship between scientific expertise and urban politics; science's role in the cultural representation of the city; the embedment of scientific activity in the city's social and material infrastructure; and the interaction between science and everyday urban life.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science

Science and The Rise Of Modern Cities

The City of Paris and the Rise of Clinical Medicine

Friends of Nature: Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800-1850

Science in a Chinese Entrepot: British Naturalists and their Chinese Associates in Old Canton

The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation

Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country

Engines for Experiment: Laboratory Revolution and Industrial Labor in the Nineteenth-Century City

Nineteenth-Century Cartography and the Urban Ideal in Paris

The Microscopist of Modern Life Science and the City After 1900

"The City of Din": Decibels, Noise and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980

Anomie in the Metropolis: The City in American Sociology and Psychiatry

"Traditional Working-Class Neighborhoods:" An Inquiry into the Emergence of a Sociological Model in the 1950s and 1960s

Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II

Dreaming the New Atlantis: Science and the Planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985

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