The City and the Railway in the World from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Roth, Ralf; Heesvelde, Paul van

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries. Despite their nearly 200-year existence, The City and the Railway in the World shows that urban railways are still politically and historically important to the modern world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000591224
• Artikelnr.: 64078275

Autorenporträt

Ralf Roth is Professor of Modern History at the Historische Seminar, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He has published several books and numerous articles on the social and cultural history of cities, transport, and communication networks. Paul Van Heesvelde is a historian (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) who specialises in war and transportation. He is a former Special PhD fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His publications include Destination le Front. Les Chemins de fer en Belgique pendant la Grande Guerre (2014) and chapters in books on transport history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: Some General Assumptions on the Topic
1. The City and the Railway in the World: Looking Back Over Two Centuries
Part 2: Cities in a Wider Context: the Role of National and Continental Railway Networks in the Development of Cities
2. Tracks Laid in Muddy Streets: Chicago's Perilous Transition From Frontier Town to Industrial City
3. A Comparative Study of the Impact of Railway Stations on Madobi and Kwankwaso Towns in the Kura District of Kano Emirate
4. Railroads and the Urban Trans-Chicago West
1865-1925
5. Bombay and its Hinterland(s): Railways and the Making of Colonial Western India
1853-c. 1900
Part 3: The Railway Station: New Entrance to the City and Its Multiple Meanings
6. Inventing the Future. Early Railway Station Planning and Mechelen's 'Central Station'
1835-1845
7. Railways in Prague: Tying and Cutting the Gordian Knot
8. Putting a Station in Its Place: 30th Street Station and Its Relationship to Philadelphia's Urban Fabric
9. 'Capital Politics' Through Railways: The Opening Ceremonies of Railway Stations in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest
10. The Railways and the City in the History of Indian Political Practice
11. Save Haydarpäa: A Train Station as Object of Conflicting Visions of the Past
12. The Conservation of Railway Stations in Mexico: A Pending Issue
Part 4: Urban Rails and How They Affected
and Still Affect
the City
13. Private Railways as Urban Developers in Japan
14. The Unfinished Dream of 'Workplace and Dwelling Proximity': Development of Private Railway Companies and Areas on Railway Lines in Greater Tokyo Metropolitan Areas
15. Creation of the Railway Culture Through Marketing and Consumption: A Case Study of Tama
West Tokyo
16. From Viaducts to Vandalism: The London and Greenwich Railway
1834-1840
17. The B&O Railroad and the Changing Use of Streets in Baltimore
Maryland
1829-1865
18. Brussel¿s Jonction as the Heart Valve in Belgium's Splintered Body
19. Birth of a Commuter Society: Workmens' Trains in Belgium
1870-1914
20. Can We Find Historical Evidence of the Existence of Wider Benefits From Urban Rail Projects? The Case of the Liverpool Overhead Railway
21. The Experience and Image of American Elevated Railways: Rapid Transit Infrastructure in the Urban Consciousness
Part 5: Railways in Troubled Waters and Their Return at the End of the Twentieth Century
22. The German Federal Railway (Deutsche Bundesbahn) and the Process of Suburbanisation After 1945
23. Light Rail Renaissance in European Cities: Urban Mobility Agenda and City Renewals
24. A Symbiotic Relationship: The Delhi Metro Rail and the National Capital Region
25. Urban Mega Projects and Civic Conflict: The Case of the Hyderabad Metro Rail Project in India