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Title:

Urban modernity : cultural innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution / Miriam R. Levin ... [et al.].

Publisher:

MIT Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 272 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Urbanization--History.
Technological innovations--History.--History.
Industrialization--History.
Industrialisierung.
Technische Innovation.
Verstädterung.

Other Authors:

Levin, Miriam R.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

CODA / Miriam R. Levin Bringing the future to Earth in Paris / Miriam R. Levin -- From modern Babylon to White City : science, technology and urban change in London, 1870-1914 / Sophie Forgan -- Counterrevolution of progress: a civic culture of modernity in Chicago, 1880-1910 / Robert H. Kargon -- "Damned always to alter, but never to be" : Berlin's culture of change around 1900 / Martina Hessler -- Promoting scientific and technological change in Tokyo, 1870-1930 : museums, industrial exhibitions, and the city / Morris Low -- CODA / Miriam R. Levin

ISBN:

0262013983 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262013987 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)436945963

LCCN:

2009034747

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)