The European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-industrial City

Colin Chant

Psychology Press, 1999 - Political Science - 305 pages

This work is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying European Cites and Technology textbook in the same series. This book is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on cities of the industrial revolution (to 1870), and European cities since 1870 and the urban technology transfer. Among the topics covered are: the reise of Merthyr Tydfil, Manchester and Glasgow; the similarities and differences in the urban growth and built environment of London and Paris; the rise of modern urban planning; the complicated explanation of Berlin's 20th-century development; the intricacies of technological transfer; the maze of post-war reconstruction; and the technological influence of the West in British India and Russia's urban development. Compiled as a reference source for students, this reader offers a deeper understanding of the historical role of technological change in urban development.

Contents

• Cities of the Industrial Revolution to 1870: 3
• Urban Growth in Industrialising Scotland 17501840: 51
• Glasgow and the Clyde: 64
• proposal for Glasgows watersupply: 71
• The London Milk Trade 18601900: 80
• The Growth of Londons Railway Milk Trade c 18451914: 88
• A New Sewersystem for Paris: 105
• The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City: 125
• technology and politics: 139
• Solving lateVictorian Londons Traffic Problems: 154
• Paris and the Automobile: 175
• engineering structures in Berlin 18711914: 200
• Prefabricated Houses in Postwar Britain: 221
• Urban Technology Transfer: 243
• the tyranny of technology: 262
• Acknowledgements: 289

About the author

David Goodman is an independent journalist, contributing writer for "Mother Jones", host of the radio show, "The Vermont Conversation, "and the bestselling author of ten books. The author of "Fault Lines: Journeys Into the New South Africa", and "Democracy Now!" (with Amy Goodman), his work has also appeared in "The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, The Nation, "and numerous other publications. He lives in Vermont.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-industrial City; Volume 2 of Cities and technology series, Colin Chant
• Author: Colin Chant
• Editors: David C. Goodman, Colin Chant
• Contributor: Open University
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1999
• ISBN: 0415200822, 9780415200820
• Length: 305 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development; Political Science / Public Policy / Regional Planning; Science / Earth Sciences / Geography; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Technology & Engineering / General; Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects