1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001232299707536

Autore

De Cecco, Giuseppe

Titolo

Poliedri / Giuseppe de Cecco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lecce : Univ. Lecce, 1995

Descrizione fisica

53 p. in varie sequenze ; 21 cm.

Classificazione

AMS 51M20

Disciplina

516.23

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791356103321

Titolo

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

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.