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Book Title
Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Rev
Publication Date
2010-05-28
Pages
288
ISBN
9780262013987
Publication Name
Urban Modernity : Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
Item Length
9.3in
Publisher
MIT Press
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.7in
Author
Morris Low, Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Robert H. Kargon, Martina Hessler
Features
New Edition
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums. At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture--an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The authors show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites--businessmen, industrialists, and officials--to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. International expositions, museums, and other such institutions and projects helped stem the economic and social instability fueled by industrialization, projecting the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic connecting urban planning, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented the future city through a series of commissions, agencies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, cultures of science and technology were both rooted in and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic ideals through scientific and technological change; in Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popularization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and Westernization went hand in hand.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262013983
ISBN-13
9780262013987
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102912134

Product Key Features

Author
Morris Low, Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Robert H. Kargon, Martina Hessler
Publication Name
Urban Modernity : Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Ht361.U7173 2010
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
"Clearly written, meticulously documented, and well argued, this work will appeal to specialists in urban studies as well as historians of science, technology, comparative cultural development, and international political development."R.P. Hallion, Hallion Associates CHOICE, "The experience of reading this book resembles the best kind of graduate seminar_this book is a wonderful contrast to those treatments of science as esoteric and ivory-tower." -- Robert Bud , The British Journal for the History of Science, The experience of reading this book resembles the best kind of graduate seminar...this book is a wonderful contrast to those treatments of science as esoteric and ivory-tower., Clearly written, meticulously documented, and well argued, this work will appeal to specialists in urban studies as well as historians of science, technology, comparative cultural development, and international political development., "Clearly written, meticulously documented, and well argued, this work will appeal to specialists in urban studies as well as historians of science, technology, comparative cultural development, and international political development." -- R.P. Hallion , Hallion Associates CHOICE, "The experience of reading this book resembles the best kind of graduateseminar...this book is a wonderful contrast to those treatments of science as esoteric andivory-tower." -- Robert Bud , The British Journal for the History ofScience, "The experience of reading this book resembles the best kind of graduate seminar...this book is a wonderful contrast to those treatments of science as esoteric and ivory-tower." -- Robert Bud , The British Journal for the History of Science, "Clearly written, meticulously documented, and well argued, this work willappeal to specialists in urban studies as well as historians of science, technology, comparativecultural development, and international political development." -- R.P.Hallion , Hallion Associates CHOICE
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Development / General, History, Industrial Technology, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
2009-034747
Dewey Decimal
307.76 09
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, Science, Social Science

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