Urban Modernity : Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution.

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Forgan, Sophie (Autor), Hessler, Martina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: MIT Press 2010.
Temas:
Industrialization > History.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects > History.
Urbanization > History.
Industrialisation > Histoire.
Innovations > Aspect économique > Histoire.
Urbanisation > Histoire.
Industrialization.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Urbanization.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology
HUMANITIES/History
Electronic resource.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures ; Preface ; 1
  • Dynamic Triad: City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society ; 2
  • Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris: 1851-1914 ; 3
  • From Modern Babylon to White City: Science, Technology, and Urban Change in London, 1870-1914 ; 4
  • The Counterrevolution of Progress: A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880-1910 ; 5
  • ""Damned Always to Alter, But Never to Be"": Berlin's Culture of Change Around 1900 ; 6
  • Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City ; 7
  • Coda ; Index

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