Technology and the City

Abstract

Josef W. Konvitz is professor of history at Michigan State University and the author of books and articles including The Urban Millennium: The City Building Process from the Early Middle Ages to the Present (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985). Mark H. Rose, a member of the Program in Science and Technology Studies at Michigan Technological University, publishes in the area of recent urban and technological history, including Interstate: Express Highway Pohtics, 1939–1989, 2d. ed. rev. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990). Joel A. Tarr is professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and has published in urban and technological history, including as co-editor (with Gabriel Dupuy), Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).