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Cities and Technology


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This series of three textbooks and three Readers explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society; the transition from mainly rural to mainly urban ways of living. The series presents, chronologically, a new highly illustrated social history of technology using urban settings as a focus. The Readers have been designed to be used on their own or as companion volumes to the textbooks.

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Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology

1st Edition

By Colin Chant, David Goodman
February 01, 2000

This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, ...

American Cities and Technology Wilderness to Wired city

American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired city

1st Edition

By Gerrylynn K. Roberts, Philip Steadman
January 31, 2000

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 ...

European Cities and Technology Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities

European Cities and Technology: Industrial to Post-Industrial Cities

1st Edition

By Colin Chant, David Goodman
February 02, 2000

Cities & Technology, a series of three textbooks and three readers, explores one of the most fundamental changes in the history of human society: the transition from predominantly rural to urban ways of living. This series presents a new social history of technology, using primarily urban settings ...

European Cities and Technology Reader Industrial to Post-Industrial City

European Cities and Technology Reader: Industrial to Post-Industrial City

1st Edition

Edited By Colin Chant, David Goodman
June 21, 1999

The European Cities and Technology Reader is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying European Cites and Technology textbook in the same seriesThe European Cities and Technology Reader is divided into three main sections presenting key readings on: Cities of the ...

The American Cities and Technology Reader Wilderness to Wired City

The American Cities and Technology Reader: Wilderness to Wired City

1st Edition

Edited By Gerrylyn K. Roberts
June 21, 1999

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 ...

The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader

The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader

1st Edition

Edited By Colin Chant
February 11, 1999

The Pre-Industrial Cities Reader is designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the accompanying Pre-Industrial Cities: Open University textbook, in the same series. Compiled as a reference source for students, this reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings ...

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