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> Part 1: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870) 1. The onset of Industrialisation 2. Britain's Industrial North: Two Urban Case Studies: Manchester and Glasgow 3. Two Capitals: London and Paris Part 2: European Cities since 1870 4. The Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of modern urban planning 5. London and Paris 6. A short history of everyday Berlin 1871-1989 7. Reconstruction: new ways of building and government sponsorship 8. Case study of Milton Keynes Part 3: Urban Technology Transfer 9. Cities in Russia 10. Colonial India