American Cities and Technology - Wilderness to Wired city (Hardcover)

This text is designed to be used on its own, or as a companion volume to the accompanying "American Cities and Technology Reader". Chronologically, this volume ranges from 1790, when the first US census reported 5 percent of the population living in urban areas, to 1990, when 75 percent of the American population lived in urban areas. Geographically, its focus is the continental USA. However, the context for the study of modern electronic communications in relation to cities transcends national boundaries just as the technologies themselves do; consequently the contents of the last two chapters in the volume range more widely around the globe. Among the issues discussed are 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 and the emergence of city planning.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cities and Technology
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Gerrylynn K. Roberts • Philip Steadman
Dimensions:	297 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20083-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-20083-0
Barcode:	9780415200837

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