The American Cities and Technology Reader
Wilderness to Wired City
Published on 15. April 1999
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-415-20085-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.Its focus extends beyond the US to include telecommunications in Asian cities in the late 20th century. The topics covered:
* 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
* the emergence of city planning.
* 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
* the emergence of city planning.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
930 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-20085-1 (9780415200851)
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Content
Introduction 1. The Indian Legacy in the American Landscape 2. Spanish Legacy in the Borderlands 3. the Laws of the Indies 4. St Augustine, Florida 5. Mission, Presidio and Pueblo in California 6. French Landscapes in North America 7. New Orleans 8. The Northeast and the Making of American Geographical Habits 9. Timber Framing in Colonial America 10. Masonry Construction in Colonial America 11. Chicago: Nature's Metropolis 12. Comparitive Perspectives on Transit in Europe and the United States, 1850-1914 13. The Trolley and Suburbanization 14. The Revolution in Street Pavements 15. The Decentralization of Los Angeles during the 1920s 16. The Minimum House 17. Light, Height, and Site: The Skyscraper in Chicago 18. Decisions about Wastewater Technology; 1850-1932 19. Refuse Pollution and Municipal Reform: The Waste Problem in America, 1880-1917 20. "The Best Lighted City in the World": The Construction of a Noctural Landscape in Chicago 21. Regional Planning for the Great American Metropolis: New York between the World Wars 22. Transport: Maker and Breaker of Cities 23. Order in Diversity: Community without Propinquity 24. Squaring the Circle: Can We Resolve the Clarkian Paradox? 25. New Highways 26. Telecommunications and the Changing Geographies of Knowledge Transmission in the Late 20th Century 27. Cities and their Airports: Policy Formation, 1926-1952 28. The Growth of the City 29. Boston's Highway 128: High-Technology Reindustrialization 30. The Role of Information Technology in the Planning and Development of Singapore 31. Continuity and Change in Conceptions of the Wired City