Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.

Description:

x, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dynamic triad: city, exposition, and museum in industrial society / 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.

Summary:

"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 contemporary developments as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic that connectied 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 a new form of the 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, members of the Commercial Club 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."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

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

Subject:

Urbanization History.
Technological innovations Economic aspects History.
Industrialization History.
Urbanisation Histoire.
Innovations Aspect économique Histoire.
Industrialisation Histoire.
56.70 urban development: general (civil engineering)
71.14 urban society.
21.73 urban development (architecture)
Industrialization
Technological innovations Economic aspects
Urbanization
Industrialisierung
Technische Innovation
Verstädterung
Urbanisation.
Urban sociology.
Elite.
Industrial revolution.
Modernity.
Urbanisering historia.
Tekniska innovationer ekonomiska aspekter historia.
Industrialisering historia.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Levin, Miriam R.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268638
Call No.: BIB 200481
Status: Available