Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution - Couverture rigide

Levin, Miriam R.; Forgan, Sophie; Hessler, Martina; Kargon, Robert H.; Low, Morris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262013983 ISBN 13 : 9780262013987

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2010

Synopsis

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.

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 the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic connecting 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 the future 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, Commercial Club members 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miriam R. Levin is Professor of History and Art History at Case Western Reserve University.

Sophie Forgan is on the faculty of Teesside University, Middlesbrough, England.

Robert H. Kargon is Willis K. Shepard Professor of the History of Science at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Rise of Robert Millikan: A Life in American Science and other books.

Morris Low is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Queensland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262013983
• ISBN 13: 9780262013987
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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