A book review of Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Philip Steadman's Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology and...

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" A book review of Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Philip Steadman's Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology and Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Philip Stedman's American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired City "
Mason, Jonathan

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	930291
Doc. No	:	LA4dn1b0kr
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Mason, Jonathan
Title & Author	:	A book review of Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Philip Steadman's Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology and Gerrylynn K. Roberts and Philip Stedman's American Cities and Technology: Wilderness to Wired City [Article]\ Mason, Jonathan
Title of Periodical	:	Berkeley Planning Journal
Volume/ Issue Number	:	15/1
Date	:	2001
Abstract	:	The growth of the Internet and the emerging ‘informational economy’ have especially stirred a renewed interest in technology’s role in urban formation, and this timely series of books from the Open University sounds an arrival of such discourses to the mainstream academic curricu- lum. The series emphasizes the relationship between technology and cities, yet it moves beyond a narrow focus on engineering innovation and technological determinism, emphasizing the importance of cultural and political factors in guiding and producing technologies.