Mediating the Decline of Industrial Cities - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032867280 ISBN 13 : 9781032867281

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This volume reflects the latest historiographical discussion about the decline, transformation, heritagization and re-invention of industrial cities in Europe during the late 20th century.

It argues that the notion of "mediation" as it has been used in the history of technology helps to shed new light on the processes of understanding changes of industrial cities before, during and after the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. The contributors investigate how different actor groups, such as scientists, union members, journalists, politicians, artists, and historians, mediated the understanding of decline, the anticipated future, and the heritage of industrial cities. The authors look at a wide range of European cities during different phases of decline and transformation.

The book is aimed at scholars of urban history and industrial history, as well as contemporary European history, the history of technology, and deindustrialization studies. The contributions also resonate with discussion in neighboring fields such as urban studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology and digital history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christoph Brüll is Assistant Professor for Contemporary History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). His research interests include the history of cross-border cooperation in Western Europe. He is the co-editor of Föderalisierung, Strukturwandel, Erwartungshorizonte [Federalisation, Structural Change, Expectations] (2023).

Sebastian Haumann is Professor for Economic, Social and Environmental History at Paris Lodron University Salzburg. His research interests include the history of raw materials and new methods in the field of Citizen Science. He is the co-editor of Concepts of Urban-Environmental History (2020).

Stefan Krebs is Assistant Professor for Contemporary History at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). His research interests include the industrial history of Luxembourg and the history of repair and maintenance. He is the co-editor of The Persistence of Technology (2021) and Deindustrialisierung: Zum sozio-ökonomischen Wandel westeuropäischer Industriegesellschaften seit den 1970er Jahren [Deindustrialization: The Socio-economic Transformation of Western European Industrial Societies Since the 1970s] (forthcoming).

Jens van de Maele is a postdoctoral member of the research unit Modernity and Society 1800-2000 at KU Leuven. His research interests include architectural history (with a focus on office buildings) and urban environmental history. He is the author of Architectures of Bureaucracy (2025) and editor of Behind Office Doors (2026).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032867280
• ISBN 13: 9781032867281
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Éditeur: Brüll Christoph, Haumann Sebastian, Krebs Stefan, Van De Maele Jens
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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