Urban Modernity: Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

by Martina Heßler, Robert H. Kargon, Sophie Forgan, et al.

How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013983
• ISBN13: 9780262013987
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher