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The American Cities & Technology Reader : Wilderness to Wired City: Reader (Cities & Technology)

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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.Cities and Technology , a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of historical evidence and a focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of technology and society. Drawing on perspectives and writings from across a number of disciplines involved in urban historical studies (archaeology, urban history, historical geography, architectural history and environmental history), the books in this series explore: how towns and cities have been shaped by applications of a range of technologies; the social origins of technology; and how such technological applications have been influenced by their social contexts, including politics, economics, culture and the environment. The American Cities and Technology Reader is 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. Geographically, its focus is the continental United States, and the majority of the readings selected deal with American cases. However, the context for the study of modern electronic communications in relation to cities transcends national boundaries just as the technologies themselves do; consequently, the contents of some of the later texts in the volume extend to global coverage. Among the issues discussed are 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 and the emergence of city planning. The principal cities featured are New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.Cities and Technology, a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of historical evidence and a focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of technology and society.
Drawing on perspectives and writings from across a number of disciplines involved in urban historical studies (archaeology, urban history, historical geography, architectural history and environmental history), the books in this series explore: how towns and cities have been shaped by applications of a range of technologies; and how such technological applications have been influenced by their social contexts, including politics, economics, culture and the natural environment.
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European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities (Cities and Technology)

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The European Cities and Technology Reader 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. 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. The book has been compiled as a reference source for students, and offers the reader a deeper understanding of the historical role of technological change in urban development.

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The Pre-industrial Cities & Technology Reader OU AT308 Reader 1

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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.The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology : Open University textbook, in the same series. Compiled 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. Among the technologies discussed are: agricultural innovations such as the heavy plough, water transport, the medieval road revolution, the first urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street lighting and fire-fighting. Among the cities covered are: Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou.Cities & Technology , a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings as a source of historical evidence and a focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of technology and society.
Drawing on perspectives and writings from across a number of disciplines involved in urban historical studies - including archaeology, urban history, historical geography and architectural history - the books in the series explore: how towns and cities have been shaped by applications of a range of technologies; the social origins of technology; and how such technological applications have been influenced by their contexts, including politics, economics, culture and the natural environment.
The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader is designed to be used on its own

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