European Cities and Technology Reader

Introduction Part One: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870) 1. Industry and Urban Form in eighteenth-century Merthyr 2. Merthyr Tydfil in the mid-nineteenth century: the struggle for public health 3. Increasing Fire-risks in Cities in an Age of Industrialisation 4. Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation 5. The Care Against the Historical Inevitability of Suburbs 6. The Development of Manchester's Industrial Region 7. Water for Manchester 8. Urban Growth in Industrializing Scotland, 1750-1840 9. Improving the Clyde: the eighteenth-century phase 10. Glasgow and the Clyde 11. Letter to Glasgow Town Council: Proposal for Glasgow's water-supply from Loch Katrine 12. Productive Metropolis: London's industrial contribution 13. The London Milk Trade, 1860-1900 14. London's Milk Supply, 1850-1900: a reinterpretation 15. The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845-1914 16. Manufacturing in the Metropolis: the Dynamism and Dynamics of Parisian Industry at the Mid-Nineteenth Century 17. A New Sewer-system for Paris Part Two: European Cities since 1870 18. Urban Transport and the Development of Glasgow's West End, 1830-1914 19. The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City 20. The British Post-war Tower Block: technology and politics 21. Solving late-Victorian London's Traffic Problems 22. Building Selfridge's: construction on an American scale in a London setting 23. Paris and the Automobile 24. The Paris Metro 25. The Metropolis as a Construction: engineering structures in Berlin 1871-1914 26. Berlin: technological metropolis 27. Prefabricated House in Post-war Britain 28. Urban Recontruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany Diefendort Part Three: Urban Technology Transfer 29. The Development of Public Transportation in St. Petersburg, 1860-1914 30. The Moscow Metro: product of indigenous technology or Western influence? 31. Housing the Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1955-90; the tyranny of technology 32. Allahabad: a sanitary history