Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Cities of the Industrial Revolution (to 1870) 1. Industry and Urban Form in eighteenth-century Merthyr
Chris Evans 2. Merthyr Tydfil in the mid-nineteenth century: the struggle for public health
R.K.Grant 3. Increasing Fire-risks in Cities in an Age of Industrialisation
C.F. Young 4. Victorian Cities and the Railways: approaches to a historical interpretation
John R. Kellett 5. The Care Against the Historical Inevitability of Suburbs
F.M. Thompson 6. The Development of Manchester's Industrial Region
F.Vigier 7. Water for Manchester J.A. Hassan and E.R. Wilson 8. Urban Growth in Industrializing Scotland, 1750-1840
T.M. Devine 9. Improving the Clyde: the eighteenth-century phase
John F. Riddell 10. Glasgow and the Clyde
John F. Riddell 11. Letter to Glasgow Town Council: Proposal for Glasgow's water-supply from Loch Katrine
W.J. Macquorn Rankine and J.Thompson 12. Productive Metropolis: London's industrial contribution
Roy Porter 13. The London Milk Trade, 1860-1900
E.H. Whetham 14. London's Milk Supply, 1850-1900: a reinterpretation
David Taylor 15. The Growth of London's Railway Milk Trade, c. 1845-1914
P.J. Atkins 16. Manufacturing in the Metropolis: the Dynamism and Dynamics of Parisian Industry at the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Barrie M. Ratcliffe 17. A New Sewer-system for Paris
David H. Pinkney Part Two: European Cities since 1870 18. Urban Transport and the Development of Glasgow's West End, 1830-1914
Michael Simpson 19. The Shredded Wheat Factory at Welwyn Garden City
Richard J. Butterfield 20. The British Post-war Tower Block: technology and politics
Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius 21. Solving late-Victorian London's Traffic Problems
Sir John Wolfe Barry 22. Building Selfridge's: construction on an American scale in a London setting
Jeanne Catherine Lawrence 23. Paris and the Automobile
Norma Evenson 24. The Paris Metro
Norma Evenson 25. The Metropolis as a Construction: engineering structures in Berlin 1871-1914
Hans Kollhoff 26. Berlin: technological metropolis
Thomas P. Hughes 27. Prefabricated House in Post-war Britain
R.B.White 28. Urban Recontruction and Town Planning in Post-war Germany
Jeffrey M. Diefendort Part Three: Urban Technology Transfer 29. The Development of Public Transportation in St. Petersburg, 1860-1914
James H. Bater 30. The Moscow Metro: product of indigenous technology or Western influence?
Michael Robbins 31. Housing the Citizens in Soviet Russia, 1955-90; the tyranny of technology
Blair A. Ruble 32. Allahabad: a sanitary history
J.B. Harrison