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Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution

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Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution

Sujet

, histoire urbaine, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, culture urbaine, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle

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Abstract from the publisher :
 
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 contemporary developments as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The authors examine the dynamic that connectied 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 a new form of the 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, members of the Commercial Club 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.
 
Contents :
 
Dynamic Triad : City, Exposition, and Museum in Industrial Society - Miriam Levin
Bringing the Future to Earth in Paris, 1851–1914 - Miriam Levin
From Modern Babylon to White City : Science, Technology, and Urban Change in London, 1870–1914 - Sophie Forgan
The Counterrevolution of Progress : A Civic Culture of Modernity in Chicago, 1880–1910 - Robert H. Kargon
"Damned Always to Alter, but Never to Be" : Berlin's Culture of Change Around 1900 - Martina Hessler
Promoting Scientific and Technological Change in Tokyo, 1870–1930 : Museums, Industrial Exhibitions, and the City - Morris Low
Coda - Miriam Levin
 

Créateur

Multiple authors

Éditeur

MIT Press

Date

May 2010

Format

272

Type

Ouvrage