How does 'place'contribute to the credibility of scientific claims? The Chicago School of
urban studies (1918-32) had close ties to the city for which it was named: its social scientists …

Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the
stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen …

How engineers and agricultural scientists became key actors in Franco's regime and Spain's
forced modernization. In this book, Lino Camprubí argues that science and technology were …

Cuando dos ingleses se tropiezan en una frontera lejana, forman un club. Cuando dos
españoles se encuentran en circunstancias parecidas, fundan una ciudad. Al regreso de …

Although modernization theories of nationalism have stressed the instrumental role of
technology in the forging of nations they have neglected how technology itself became a …

By 1914, photographers were producing stunning images of the built environment across
Europe, including in Spain and Germany. In Spain, Jaime Murillo Rubiera and Mario …

Cuando dos ingleses se tropiezan en una frontera lejana, forman un club. Cuando dos
españoles se encuentran en circunstancias parecidas, fundan una ciudad. Al regreso de …

Urbanismo antes dos Planos: Coimbra 1834-1934 propõe-se contribuir para a clarificação
do que foi o início do planeamento urbanístico em Portugal. O título contraditório sublinha a …

The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been
extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention …

This paper explores the role of Catalan industrial engineers in the making of a stateless
nation (within Spain) in the interwar period. After the proclamation of the Second Spanish …