- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; illustrated edition edition (4 Mar 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262083698
- ISBN-13: 978-0262083690
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.5 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 579,495 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"By placing technology at the center of its historical narratives, the volume provides original insights into some of the most crucial episodes of modern urban history. Its focus on the tension between circulation and appropriation also connects the work presented here with more general debates in the social sciences about the role of place in the context of modernization and globalization. Similarly, historians of science who are interested in the circulation of scientific knowledge and objects or, more specifically, the relation between knowledge and cities will be able to draw much inspiration from Urban Machinery." --Jens Lachmund, ISIS
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"By placing technology at the center of its historical narratives, the volume provides original insights into some of the most crucial episodes of modern urban history. Its focus on the tension between circulation and appropriation also connects the work presented here with more general debates in the social sciences about the role of place in the context of modernization and globalization. Similarly, historians of science who are interested in the circulation of scientific knowledge and objects or, more specifically, the relation between knowledge and cities will be able to draw much inspiration from Urban Machinery." Jens Lachmund ISIS
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aspects of urbanisation.
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the book offers separate essays on aspects of urbanisation in different regions. The impression is of a loosely connected historical overvieuw. Interesting but lacking explicit conclusions or lessons for city planners.
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