Urban histories of science. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan.
• Editors: Hochadel, Oliver, 1968-; Nieto-Galan, Agustí
• Contents: Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan Envisioning a New European Metropolis. Designing the Athens Observatory (1842) Maria Rentetzi and Spiros Flevaris Institutionalizing the ‘metropolis of mechanics’: philosophical engineering in the city of Glasgow c. 1820 – c. 1875 Ben Marsden Natural Sciences Meeting their Public: The Hungarian Association for the Advancement of Science in Budapest, 1841-1896 Katalin Stráner Copepods and Fisherboys: Advanced Marine Biological Research and Street Poverty in Naples circa 1890 Katharina Steiner Locating Dublin in the late nineteenth-century ether Tanya O’Sullivan Second city of science? Dublin as a centre of calculation in the British Imperial context, 1886-1912 Juliana Adelman From capital city to scientific capital. Science, technology and medicine in Lisbon as seen through the press, 1900-1910 Ana Simões Collective expertise. The urban planning of Munkkiniemi and Haaga, Helsinki (ca. 1915) Emilia Karppinen On Hygiene in a Modern Peripheral City: Buenos Aires, 1870-1940 Diego Armus From Electricity to the Photo Archive: National Identity and the Planning of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition Lucila Mallart Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 509; Science -- History; Sociology, Urban
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351856430; 9781351856447; 9781351856423; 9781315228549
• Related ISBNs: 9780415784177
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