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The European Cities and Technology Reader; The American Cities and Technology Reader; The Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology Reader

Technology is a driving force in our society, and as new technologies continue to emerge it is important to step back and evaluate their history to obtain insights for the future. These three readers provide an important technological perspective on the historical growth and development of cities. The purpose of this series of three readers, according to the editors, is to understand the social and economic transitions from predominantly rural to urban society through technological developments. Specifically, the first aim "is to investigate the extent to which major changes in the physical form and fabric of towns and cities have been stimulated by technological developments (and conversely how far urban development has been constrained by the existing state of technology)" (Chant, 1). In this vein, the series deals with both the contributions of technology to the emergence of cities and to their continued development (Chant, 3). "A second aim is