Autor(es) Andrea Giuntini, Peter Hertner, Gregorio Nuñez , ISBN:9788484449126.
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Introduction.—GIUNTINI, HERTNER and NÚÑEZ
1. New Perspectives
2. Infrastructural development during the second industrial revolution: old and new problems, original solutions
3. A new thematic study towards a unified vision: infrastructure networks in cities
4. Contributions

LOCAL LIFE AND MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT

The Economic Development and Impact of the Urban Infrastructure in Victorian Britain.—ROBERT MILLWARD
1. Introduction
2. The Size of the Expansion of the Urban Infrastructure 1870-1914
3. Public Health as a Core Activity
4. Financing the Programmes
5. The Growth and Impact of Public Health Spending
6. Conclusions: The Implications for Mortality

Local Life and Municipal Services in Spain at the beginning of the 20th Century.—GREGORIO NÚÑEZ
1. Introduction
2. Main Protagonists
3. The Context of Change
4. Municipal Public Works: An Indicator of Local Dynamism
5. Possibilities and Limits of Local Policy
6. Conclusions

Networks of Urban Infrastructure and Services in Italy in the Midst of Economic Decisions, Financial Restrictions and Technological Limits (19th and 20th centuries).—ANDREA GIUNTINI
1. Networks, Industrialization, Modernization
2. Demographic Accumulation and the Standardization of Lifestyles
3. Technology’s Role
4. A New Normative Effort
5. City Politics and Elites in Power
6. The Power of Technicians
7. Municipalisation
8. A Case for Study: Public Health and Sanitation Infrastructures

URBAN TRANSPORT

Running for money: Finance and municipalisation in Lisbon (1850-1914).—ÁLVARO FERREIRA DA SILVA
1. Introduction
2. Externalities and urban environment at the beginning of municipalisation
3. Urban growth, regulation and municipal trade in Lisbon
4. Financial constraints to the “urban development programme”
5. The municipalisation of water supply: controversies and blockages
6. The municipalisation of urban land in the “projecto das zonas”
7. Conclusion

Spatial Structures, Transport Networks, Urban Mobility. Vienna and Berlin, 1870-1914.—PAOLO CAPUZZO
1. Horse-drawn transport
2. The urban railway
3. Technological innovations and transport development till the First World War

Public Transportation in a Latin American Metropolis: Buenos Aires Between 1900 and the Late 1960s.—RAUL GARCÍA HERAS
1. Introduction
2. From the Turn of the Century to the End of the First World War
3. The Interwar Years, 1918-1939
4. The War and the Early Post War Years
5. The End of an Era: The Late 1950s and the 1960s
6. Conclusions

Changing Policy Objectives of a Local Public Company: The Profit and Loss Account of Transportes Urbanos de Vitoria, S.A..—JOSÉ LUIS HERNÁNDEZ MARCO
1. Introduction
2. Urban growth and the foundation of the public transport company
3. Municipal policy and Tuvisa’s financial results (1961-2000)
4. Conclusion

WATER AND ENERGY SUPPLY

The Development of Water Supplies in Spain. 19th and 20th Centuries.—JUAN M. MATÉS
1. A sector both public and private
2. Stages in the development of the Spanish urban water supply sector
3. First private enterprises (1840-1899)
4. The maturity stage of private management (1900-1936)
5. The interventionist reaction of the State (1939-1970)
6. Conclusions

Electrifying German Cities. Investments in Energy Technology and Public Transport and their Impact on Urban Development 1880-1914.—DIETER SCHOTT
1. Preconditions
2. Processes of Urban Electrification
3. Financing Urban Electrification
4. Rates
5. Consequences and Effects of Urban Electrification

The Drawning of the Gas Lighting Service: Brazilian Development in a Comparative Framework.—KÁTIA MARTÍNEZ

Conflict Among capitalists: the Beginnings of Electric Energy in Rio de Janeiro at the Turn of the 19th Century.—CÉZAR HONORATO
1. The electricity issue in Rio de Janeiro
2. The conflict between Light and Guinle
3. Epilogue

Urban Growth and the Creation of Integrated Electricity Systems: The Cases of Genoa and Barcelona, 1894-1914.—MARCO DORIA & PETER HERTNER
1. Genoa
2. Barcelona
3. Some concluding remarks

How to Regulate the Supply of Gas and Electricity. The Peculiar Case of Bordeaux.—ALEXANDRE FERNÁNDEZ
1. 1919: Failure of the original local system and foundation of Rmgeb
2. From the 1930s to the 1960s: the question of the energetic dependence and the difficult management of the Rmgeb
3. From the Public Corporation to the Gaz de Bordeaux company

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