Author : David C. Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415200820
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.
Author : David C. Goodman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415200806
This text explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society - the transition from rural to urban ways of living. It covers a range of urban technologies, including new building materials and designs.
Author : Gerrylynn K. Roberts
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415200851
Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the textbook, this book offers in-depth readings on the technological dimensions of US cities from the earliest settlements to the internet communications of the 1990s.
Author : Colin Chant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415200783
Complied as a reference source for students, this Reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa.
Author : Gerrylynn K. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134636121
Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian settlements to the 'wired city' concept of the 1960s and internet communications of the 1990s.Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecomunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered: * the rise of the skyscraper *the coming of the automobile age * relations between private and public transport * the development of infrastructural technologies and systems * the implications of electronic communications * the emergence of city planning.
Author : Richard T. LeGates
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415271738
This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.
Author : Nicholas R. Fyfe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780415307024
A reader, this collection captures the diversity of scholarship in the field of urban geography by presenting a stimulating selection of articles and excerpts by leading figures, organized around seven themes.
Author : Colin Chant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134636199
This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou Among the technologies discussed are: irrigation, water transport, urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street lighting and public clocks.
Author : Dimitris N. Karidis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,34 MB
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1803270691
This book offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. It challenges the common perception of Schinkel’s proposed palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) as a utopian scheme, detached from the realities of nineteenth-century Greece.
Author : Mitchell G. Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000210235
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history museums, large technical projects including the Ringstrasse and water pipelines from the Alps, urban geology, geography, public reports on polar exploration, exchanges of ethnographic objects, popular scientific societies and scientifically oriented adult education. The infrastructures and knowledge spaces described here were preconditions for the explosion of creativity known as 'Vienna 1900.'
