The Making of the Industrial Landscape
Author: Barrie Stuart Trinder
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barrie Stuart Trinder
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert D. Lewis
Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, the author provides a detailed account of a major North American city's industrial landscape from the beginnings of industrialization to the Great Depression. He demonstrates that the process of industrial decentralization has been ongoing since the 1850s. His overall thesis is that the economic and social imperatives underlying industrial capitalism reshaped the manufacturing geography of Montreal ...
Author: Brian Hayes
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393349832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering agriculture, resources, energy, communication, transportation, manufacturing and waste, this volume explores all the major ecosystems of the modern industrial world, revealing what the structures are and why they're there and uncovering beauty in unexpected places. Photos.
Author: Worcester Historical Museum
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781584657774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of the cradle of American industrialization
Author: Robert D. Lewis
Publisher: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, the author provides a detailed account of a major North American city's industrial landscape from the beginnings of industrialization to the Great Depression. He demonstrates that the process of industrial decentralization has been ongoing since the 1850s. His overall thesis is that the economic and social imperatives underlying industrial capitalism reshaped the manufacturing geography of Montreal ...
Author: Edward K. Muller
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2019-12-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822945697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region’s free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region’s mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region’s economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.
Author: Laurie Graham
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2002-10-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780822957928
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done--both to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart. Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little understood and appreciated, Graham set out to investigate the city's landscape, past and present, and to learn the lessons she sensed were there about living a good life. The result, told in both her voice and the distinctive voices of the people she meets, is a powerful contribution to the literature of place. Graham begins by showing the city as an outgrowth of its geography and its geology--the factors that led to its becoming an industrial place. She describes the human investment in the area: the floods of immigrants who came to work in the mills in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, their struggles within the domains of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. She evokes the superhuman aura of making steel by taking the reader to still functioning mills and uncovers for us a richness of tradition in ethnic neighborhoods that survives to this day.
Author: Michael P. Conzen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 805
ISBN-13: 1317793692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s physical topography to its needs over more than 500 years. It presents a synoptic view of myriad historical processes working together or in conflict, and illustrates them through their survival in or disappearance from the everyday landscapes of today.
Author: James H. Rubin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0520248015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of Impressionist celebrations of modernity to include what might be called Impressionism's "other landscape" and proposes that in the Impressionists' effort to forge a modern landscape art, those signs of modernity defined their vision most clearly."--BOOK JACKET.