Who built the built environment? Artifacts, politics, and urban technology

Technology and Culture

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 690-695

  Johnson Mcgrath, Julie ^a  

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EID: 0031324659     PISSN: 0040165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3106859     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Books reviewed in this essay: John D. Fairfield, The Mysteries of the Great City. The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993); Larry R. Ford, Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs: Creating the North American Landscape (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Mark H. Rose, Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995); Carl S. Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
2. Books reviewed in this essay: John D. Fairfield, The Mysteries of the Great City. The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993); Larry R. Ford, Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs: Creating the North American Landscape (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Mark H. Rose, Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995); Carl S. Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
3. Books reviewed in this essay: John D. Fairfield, The Mysteries of the Great City. The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993); Larry R. Ford, Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs: Creating the North American Landscape (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Mark H. Rose, Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995); Carl S. Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
4. Books reviewed in this essay: John D. Fairfield, The Mysteries of the Great City. The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993); Larry R. Ford, Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs: Creating the North American Landscape (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Mark H. Rose, Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995); Carl S. Smith, Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995)
5. Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, "The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1910: The Role of Municipal Services," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (April 1984): 153-77; Clay McShane, "Transforming the Use of Urban Space: A Look at the Revolution in Street Pavements," Journal of Urban History 5 (1979): 279-307; Elizabeth Blackmar, "Accountability for Public Health: Regulating the Housing Market in 19th-century New York City," in Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City, ed. David Rosner (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press for the Museum of the City of New York, 1995).
6. Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, "The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1910: The Role of Municipal Services," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (April 1984): 153-77; Clay McShane, "Transforming the Use of Urban Space: A Look at the Revolution in Street Pavements," Journal of Urban History 5 (1979): 279-307; Elizabeth Blackmar, "Accountability for Public Health: Regulating the Housing Market in 19th-century New York City," in Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City, ed. David Rosner (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press for the Museum of the City of New York, 1995).
7. Gretchen A. Condran, Henry Williams, and Rose A. Cheney, "The Decline in Mortality in Philadelphia from 1870 to 1910: The Role of Municipal Services," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 108 (April 1984): 153-77; Clay McShane, "Transforming the Use of Urban Space: A Look at the Revolution in Street Pavements," Journal of Urban History 5 (1979): 279-307; Elizabeth Blackmar, "Accountability for Public Health: Regulating the Housing Market in 19th-century New York City," in Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City, ed. David Rosner (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press for the Museum of the City of New York, 1995).
8. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology, from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1983).
9. David Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
10. Ford, p. xiii.
11. Paul Erling Groth, Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
12. Theodore Dreiser, The Financier (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925).