VAST 234 - Technology and the City:Chicago and New York

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Description:

This course examines the role that industrial technology played in the rise of the two great American cities-Chicago and New York. It centers on Chicago and uses New York further to illuminate technology's influence on the city-building process and the role that cities played in making America a technological wonder and the greatest industrial power on earth by 1900. The course is taught from an interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of relating history to present time and to students' lives. D. Miller

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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