{"pk":3335,"title":"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","subtitle":null,"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.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"planning"},{"word":"technology"},{"word":"Cities"}],"section":"Book Reviews","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4dn1b0kr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Mason","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-01-23T17:10:53-05:00","date_accepted":"2012-01-23T17:10:53-05:00","date_published":"2012-01-23T17:11:20-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3335/galley/2105/download/"}]}