Cities, Railways, Modernities

London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66292-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Urban History

Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro. By highlighting the multiple ways in which the future of the two cities was imagined and the role that railways played in that process, it challenges and refines two of the most dominant myths of urban modernity: A planned Paris and an unplanned London. The book recovers a significant body of work around the ideas, the plans, the context and the building of metropolitan railways in the two cities to provide new insights into the relationship of transport technologies and urban change during the nineteenth century.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

López Galviz, Carlos

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Past Futures 2. Circulation and Improvement 3. Lines and Circles 4. Steam and Light 5. Modernities, or, Remembering Future Events

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos López Galviz is a Lecturer in Social Futures at Lancaster University, UK.