ABSTRACT
This book presents new research on spaces for science and processes of interurban and transnational knowledge transfer and exchange in the imperial metropolis of Vienna in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters discuss Habsburg science policy, metropolitan natural history museums, large technical projects including the Ringstrasse and water pipelines from the Alps, urban geology, geography, public reports on polar exploration, exchanges of ethnographic objects, popular scientific societies and scientifically oriented adult education. The infrastructures and knowledge spaces described here were preconditions for the explosion of creativity known as 'Vienna 1900.'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|21 pages
Metropolitan Scientific Infrastructures and Spaces of Knowledge in Vienna, 1848–1918
part One|41 pages
Historiographical Overviews
chapter 2|18 pages
Metropolitan Natural Histories
chapter 3|21 pages
Periphery and Metropolis
part Two|45 pages
Focus on Vienna 1
chapter 4|23 pages
The Beginnings of the “City Machine”
chapter 5|20 pages
Metropolitan Geology and Metropolitan Collections
part Three|61 pages
Comparative Studies and Metropolitan Networks, 1870s–1910s
chapter 6|22 pages
Polar Waters in Metropolitan Space
chapter 7|17 pages
Academic Geography and its Networks in Vienna and Berlin
chapter 8|20 pages
Capital Collections, Complex Systems
part Four|48 pages
Focus on Vienna 2
