European Cities and Technology

<p><em>Cities & Technology</em> 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 anda focus for the interpretation of the historical relations of technology and society.<br>Drawing on perspectives and writings from accross 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 and how such technological applications have been influenced by their social contexts including politics economics culture and the natural environment.<br><em>European Cities and Technology</em> is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying <em>European Cities and Technology Reader</em> in the same series. The book is divided into three principal sections: cities of the Industrial Revolution including case studies of Manchester Glasgow London and Paris; European cities since 1870 including London Paris Berlin the rise of modern urban planning and post-war reconstruction; and a variety of topics including Milton Keynes Colonial India and Russia. It investigates the relative importance of technology economics politics and social conditions in relation to urban change.</p>