Contents
Figures and Maps Vil
Contributors IX
Preface Xlll
Urban Histories of Science: How to Tell the Tale 1
OLIVER HOCHADEL AND AGUSTi NIETO-GALAN
1 Envisioning a New European Metropolis: Designing the
National Observatory of Athens 16
MARIA RENTETZI AND SPIROS FLEVARIS
2 Institutionalizing the "Metropolis of Mechanics":
Philosophical Engineering in the City of Glasgow c. 1820-c. 1875 37
BEN MARSDEN
3 The Natural Sciences and Their Public at the Meetings of the Hungarian Association for the Advancement of Science in
Budapest and Beyond, 1841-1896 59
KATALIN STRANER
4 Copepods and Fisherboys: Advanced Marine Biological
Research and Street Poverty in Naples c. 1890 80
KATHARINA STEINER
5 Locating Dublin in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ether 102
TANYA O'SULLIVAN
6 Second City of Science? Dublin as a Center of Calculation in
the British Imperial Context, 1886-1912 122
7 From Capital City to Scientific Capital: Science, Technology,
and Medicine in Lisbon as Seen through the Press, 1900-1910 141
ANA SIMOES
8 Collective Expertise behind the Urban Planning of
Munkkiniemi and Haaga, Helsinki (c. 1915) 164
EMILIA KARPPINEN
9 On Hygiene in a Modern Peripheral City:
Buenos Aires, 1870-1940 186
DIEGO ARMUS
10 From Electricity to the Photo Archive: National Identity and
the Planning of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition 208
LUCILA MALLART
Index 227