TY - GEN AU - Dennis, Richard TI - Cities in modernity : representations and productions of metropolitan space, 1840-1930 SN - 9780521468411 U1 - 307.76 PY - 2008/// CY - Delhi PB - Cambridge University Press KW - N1 - Contents List of illustrations ix List of tables xii Preface xiii A note on vocabulary and units of measurement page xvii 1 Building bridges 1 2 The idea of progress 29 3 Surveying the city 52 4 Writing and picturing the city 80 5 Improving streets 113 6 Public spaces- practised places 144 7 Building suburbia 179 8 Consuming suburbia 206 9 Mansion flats and model dwellings 224 10 Geographies of downtown: office spaces 263 11 Geographies of downtown: the place of shopping 296 12 Networked cities 322 Notes 351 Bibliography 401 Index 425 ER -