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Cities, Railways, Modernities
London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century
Routledge Advances in Urban History Series
Author: López Galviz Carlos
Language: EnglishSubject for Cities, Railways, Modernities:
Keywords
Vincent Van Gogh; Whitechapel Mile End Station; Metropolitan Railway; Chemin De Fer; Grand Paris; Night Watch Men; Boulevard De Strasbourg; Main Line Companies; Main Line Railways; Du Grand Paris; Grand Paris Express; Compagnie Du Chemin De Fer; Electric Traction; Porte Maillot; Porte Dauphine; Place De La Concorde; Rue De Rivoli; Les Halles; Gare Montparnasse
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Add to cart the book of López Galviz CarlosPublication date: 09-2020
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Add to cart the book of López Galviz CarlosPublication date: 01-2019
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Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro. By highlighting the multiple ways in which the future of the two cities was imagined and the role that railways played in that process, it challenges and refines two of the most dominant myths of urban modernity: A planned Paris and an unplanned London. The book recovers a significant body of work around the ideas, the plans, the context and the building of metropolitan railways in the two cities to provide new insights into the relationship of transport technologies and urban change during the nineteenth century.
1. Past Futures 2. Circulation and Improvement 3. Lines and Circles 4. Steam and Light 5. Modernities, or, Remembering Future Events
Carlos López Galviz is a Lecturer in Social Futures at Lancaster University, UK.