Cities, Railways, Modernities : London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 256578042
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367110871
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Research for this monograph took place in 13 different archives from private institutions, libraries, and municipal and national authorities in London and Paris. Analysis and reporting of emerging findings, over eight years, was shaped through contributions at conferences of the Urban History Group, the European Association for Urban History, the London Group of Historical Geographers, the AAG annual meeting in New York, and invited talks at Ghent, St Petersburg, Lausanne, and Mauritius. The book involved examining and collating an extensive corpus of primary sources in English and French, producing 14 new maps, and reproducing 25 illustrations, several unpublished before.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The book chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the 19th century through the lens of urban transport infrastructure. It challenges and refines two of the most dominant myths of urban modernity: a planned Paris and an unplanned London. Drawing together an extensive corpus of primary sources, many brought to light for the first time, the book’s insights are supported by 14 new maps and 25 illustration. The analysis of the relationship between transport technologies and urban change, in particular the role of metropolitan railways in envisioning the future of cities in the long 19th century, is of continued relevance today. The research underpinning the book took place over eight years and involved comparative work in several national, municipal and institutional archives in the UK and France. Reviews have commended: its ‘astute analysis’ and ‘compelling read […] enriching our understanding of’ London and Paris (Journal of Transport History); its ambition and rigour and the lessons that might ‘be instructive for other cities in the world’ (Transfers). The most recent review (Historia Contemporánea, review in Spanish, 2020) highlighted the book’s ‘innovative method of remembering past futures [which] critique narratives of a radical break with the past’. Following its publication, Lopez-Galviz has been invited to give keynote lectures at three international conferences, two of them inaugural meetings of two new academic institutions, namely, the Academy of Mobilities Humanities, Konkuk University (Seoul), the Critical Automobility Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies (Vienna), and the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. The author’s role as Co-I in UKRI-GCRF-funded 3-year project (2020-2023) entitled Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition, will extend the research from this book further as it seeks to connect the learning on urban change in the past to the future of cities like Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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