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Artificial Satellite
Author_Gerrylynn K. Roberts
Author_Philip Steadman
Average Income
Balloon Frame Construction
Balloon Frame Housing
Bronx River Parkway
burnham
Burnham Plan
Capitol Building
car
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Central Water Supply System
chicago
construction technology
De Sola Pool
electronic communication networks
Empire State Building
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Erie Canal
Fire Loss
Fireproof Construction
historical
Home Insurance Building
Home Town
horse
Horse Tram
Ithiel De Sola Pool
Late Twentieth Century City
Manhattan Company
motor
public transport systems
railroads
SALT Lake City
sanitation engineering
Satellite
society
steam
technological change in urban planning
telecommunication history
Tilden Foundations
trams
Twelfth Street
UK's Open University
urban infrastructure evolution
York Regional Plan
Product details
- ISBN 9780415200837
- Weight: 1192g
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 telecomunications 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.
Gerrylynn K. Roberts is a lecturer in the Department of History of Science and Technology, and Philip Steadman is a lecturer in the Department of Architectural and Urban Morphology at the Open University.
