What's Wrong with this Picture?

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 States and Central and Western Europe. The political context and nature of long-term infrastructure decisions and the economics of investment and utilization are given insufficient attention, but the empirical material is rich, diverse, well-illustrated and instructive.