Urban machinery
| Titel: | Urban machinery : inside modern European cities / ed. by Mikael Hård ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : The MIT Press, 2008 |
| Umfang: | VIII, 351 S. : Ill. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Inside technology |
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| ISBN: | 0262514176 ; 9780262514170 ; 9780262083690 |
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- Preface
- p. vii
- 1
- Modernizing European Cities
- p. 1
- Technological Uniformity and Cultural Distinction
- I
- Modernism and Mastery
- 2
- Taming the Rhine
- p. 23
- Economic Connection and Urban Competition
- 3
- Arenas of Experimentation
- p. 49
- Modernizing Istanbul in the Late Ottoman Empire
- 4
- Appropriating the International Style
- p. 71
- Modernism in East and West
- II
- Representation and Reform
- 5
- Spectacles of Sociability
- p. 99
- European Cities as Sites of Consumption
- 6
- Progressive Dreams
- p. 121
- The German City in Britain and the United States
- 7
- Constructing Dutch Streets
- p. 141
- A Melting Pot of European Technologies
- III
- Industry and Innovation
- 8
- Empowering European Cities
- p. 165
- Gas and Electricity in the Urban Environment
- 9
- In the Shadow of the Factory
- p. 187
- Steel Towns in Postwar Eastern Europe
- 10
- Science in the City
- p. 211
- European Traditions and American Models
- IV
- Planning and Power
- 11
- Between Theory and Practice
- p. 233
- Planning Socialist Cities in Hungary
- 12
- Mediators of Modernity
- p. 257
- Planning Experts and the Making of the ôCar-Friendlyö City in Europe
- 13
- Greening the City
- p. 281
- Urban Environmentalism from Mumford to Malmo
- References
- p. 299
- Contributors
- p. 337
- Series List
- p. 341
- Index
- p. 343
