Urban modernity : cultural innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution / / Miriam R. Levin [and others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791356103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010
• ISBN: 0-262-26563-X; 1-282-63823-8; 9786612638237; 0-262-26593-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Classificazione: 20.09
• Altri autori (Persone): LevinMiriam R
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetti: Urbanization - History; Technological innovations - Economic aspects - History; Industrialization - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Figures ; Preface ; 1 - Dynamic Triad: City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society ; 2 - Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris: 1851-1914 ; 3 - From Modern Babylon to White City: Science, Technology, and Urban Change in London, 1870-1914 ; 4 - The Counterrevolution of Progress: A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880-1910 ; 5 - ""Damned Always to Alter, But Never to Be"": Berlin's Culture of Change Around 1900 ; 6 - Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870-1930: Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City ; 7 - Coda ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At the close of the 19th century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centred, industrial-based culture - an entirely new social reality based on science and technology.