Josef W Konvitz

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ID378141
NOMEJosef W Konvitz
PRENOMESJosef W
SOBRENOMEKonvitz
ASSINATURAKONVITZ J W
AFILIAÇÕESMichigan State University
ORCID0000-0002-9618-0469
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS49
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES24
TOTAL COMO AUTOR49
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1975
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2022
ÍNDICE H3

  • People are the target

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEViolence An International Journal2022Referências: 1

    Urban destruction in the 21st century has already turned out to be different from 20th century experience. Aerial bombardment, which destroyed so many cities in Europe and Asia during two world wars, was based on assumptions about how cities collapse, bringing down economies and regimes with them, and about the superiority of air power as the means of destruction. Both were flawed. In World War II, the destruction of cities was intended to shorte…

  • The Cartographic Capital

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEFrench History2020

    The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889–1934 The Cartographic Capital: Mapping Third Republic Paris, 1889–1934. By Kory Olson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1966. x + 309 pp. £90. ISBN: 978-1-7 8 6 9 4-096-4. Josef W Konvitz Josef W Konvitz University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 396–398, https://doi.org/1…

  • Les Globes de Louis XIV

    Josef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLEImago Mundi2013

  • Contemporary Urban History

    Open AccessJosef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLEJournal of Urban History2013

  • Response to Misa

    Josef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Response to Misa Josef Konvitz Thomas Misa is right to point out that my review of Urban Machinery does not meet his criteria of a good review. I tried to focus my review away from an internal approach, which would indicate its place in and contribution to the scholarly literature, and toward some of the larger issues that are explicitly raised by the book. This is another way to highlight its significance, lifting it above the category of a coll…

  • What's Wrong with this Picture

    Josef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture2010

    Do networks of urban utilities make cities more alike in Europe? What has been the diffusion of urban technologies and models of urban development in both directions between Europe and North America in the twentieth century? How are cities with a high concentration of research and development activities different? To answer questions such as these, Mikael Hard and Thomas Misa have assembled a team of scholars writing mostly about the United State…

  • Maps

    Josef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: Maps: Finding Our Place in the World Josef Konvitz (bio) Maps: Finding Our Place in the World. Edited by James R. Akerman and Robert W. Karrow Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. ix+400. $55. This is a remarkable companion to an exhibition organized by the Field Museum and the Newberry Library. The history of cartography as practiced since the 1970s is part of a broader cultural movement to give us a better understand…

  • Unbuilding Cities

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by Josef W. Konvitz Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change. By Anique Hommels. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. viii+281. $35. When cities are rebuilt—whether after fire or earthquake or bombardment, in pursuit of a social or environmental objective, or to adjust to a structural change in economic activity—the physical characteristics of the built environment become a significant factor in determining what chang…

  • The Mapmaker's Quest

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Reviewed by: The Mapmaker’s Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe Josef Konvitz (bio) The Mapmaker’s Quest: Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe. By David Buisseret. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi+227. $30. Why should a book on the history of cartography which does not treat the technological aspects of mapmaking be of interest to readers of Technology and Culture? This question highlights a problem in the hist…

  • Jobs for People and Places

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEEuropean Urban and Regional Studies2001Referências: 1

    Cities and regions should not compete to attract jobs, but instead should try to create them. Jobs-to-people is a strategic approach based on the valorization of local and regional assets, including the performance of firms based on their networks and local strengths, natural and created assets, and the capacity to enhance endogenous development. Taken together, these describe territorial capital. National policies and local and regional initiati…

  • The Self-Made Map

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLEIsis2000

  • Meeting the Challenge of Distressed Urban Areas

    Open AccessMaureen Conway, Josef Konvitz et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2000Citada por: 4

    The emergence of distressed urban areas in the 1990s was unexpected. Governments have reacted with a series of policy initiatives which have increasingly focused on area-based strategies, partnerships and the formulation of a metropolitan vision. The scale of the problem-up to 20 per cent of the total population may live in distressed urban areas—and the complexity of causes are two factors which have complicated the design and implementation of …

  • Maps and Politics

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

    Reviewed by: Maps and Politics* Josef W. Konvitz (bio) Maps and Politics. By Jeremy Black. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. 188; illustrations, maps, notes/references, index. $35. This book should be of interest to historians of technology for its treatment of objectivity and ideology as factors shaping the content of maps. Maps are artifacts produced within the limits of several technologies, ranging from geodesy to printing. How …

  • Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin by W. N. Osborough

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

    technology and culture Book Reviews 321 at that university. He is the immediate past president ofICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology. Law and theEmergence ofModem Dublin. By W. N. Osborough. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1996. Pp. xxii+225; illustrations, notes, bib­ liography, index. $39.95 (hardcover). One purpose of a book review is to help readers understand what larger significance a book they might never read …

  • Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin

    Josef W Konvitz, W N OsboroughARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • The Early Modern City, 1450-1750

    Josef Konvitz, Josef W KonvitzARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1997

  • Is Paris Beautiful

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEJournal of Urban History1997

  • Maps and Civilization

    Josef W KonvitzARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

    Technology and culture Book Reviews 979 New York. Her book Motherhood Lost: Cultural Constructions of Pregnancy Loss in the United States will be published by Routledge. Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society. By Norman J. W. Thrower. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+326; illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, index. $55.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). As a brief, one-volume survey of cartography in Western E…

  • Small Towns in Early Modern Europe

    Josef W Konvitz, Peter ClarkARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1997

  • Maps and Civilization

    Josef W Konvitz, Norman J W ThrowerARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

  • Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution

    Josef W Konvitz, Ted W MargadantARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1994

  • The Crises of Atlantic Port Cities 1880 to 1920

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…1994Citada por: 2Referências: 22

    The industrialization of shipping, a process which accelerated rapidly between the 1870s and 1910s, induced and accompanied dramatic changes in European and American port cities. Never before or since have so few cities on both sides of the Atlantic concentrated such a large proportion of the world's commerce. Thanks to the expansion of shipping, the great port cities of the Atlantic world acquired a significant manufacturing sector, including sh…

  • Port Cities and Urban History

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEJournal of Urban History1993Citada por: 2

    Review essay of The Widening Gate by David Harris Sacks; Brides of the Sea by Frank Broeze, ed.; and Atlantic Port Cities by Franklin W.Knight and Peggy K. Liss, ed

  • The evolution of American urban technology

    Joel A Tarr, Josef W Konvitz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology1992

    (1992). The evolution of American urban technology. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-18

  • Missing the Boat

    Open AccessJosef W KonvitzARTICLEUrban Studies1992Referências: 5

    The Second World War marked a decisive expansion of planning for port cities in Western Europe and the UK. The study of plans for Glasgow shows that planners failed to prepare for the modernisation of port facilities and of waterfront-related industry and the improvement of transport connections between ports and the rest of the city. A comprehensive assessment of port matters was compromised by politics, first in bringing about government interv…