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Manufacturing suburbs : building work and home on the metropolitan fringe / edited by Robert Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suburbs--United States--History.
- Suburbs.
- Suburbs--Canada--History.
- Manufacturing industries--United States--History.
- Manufacturing industries.
- Urbanization.
- History.
- Working class.
- United States.
- Manufacturing industries--Canada--History.
- Working class--United States--History.
- Working class--Canada--History.
- Urbanization--United States--History.
- Urbanization--Canada--History.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Building work and home on the metropolitan fringe
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2004.
- Contents:
- 1 Industry and the Suburbs / Robert Lewis 1
- 2 Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950 / Richard Walker, Robert Lewis 16
- 3 The Emergence of Industrial Districts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore / Edward K. Muller, Paul A. Groves 32
- 4 Model City? Industry and Urban Structure in Chicago / Mary Beth Pudup 53
- 5 A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929 / Robert Lewis 76
- 6 Industry Builds Out the City: The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1940 / Richard Walker 92
- 7 Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920 / Edward K. Muller 124
- 8 The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in Toronto, 1881-1951 / Gunter Gad 143
- 9 "Nature's Workshop": Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California, 1900-1950 / Greg Hise 178
- 10 "The American Disease of Growth": Henry Ford and the Metropolitanization of Detroit, 1920-1940 / Heather B. Barrow 200
- 11 Suburbanization and the Employment Linkage / Richard Harris 221.
- Notes:
- Includes some original papers commissioned for this collection and some previously published in issues of the Journal of historical geography and the Geographical review.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592130852
- 1592130860
- OCLC:
- 54046245
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