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Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- High, Steven.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Urban Studies.
- Summary:
- The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures-has for decades been a part of the North American landscape. Through a unique blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, Corporate Wasteland investigates this fascinating terrain and the phenomenon of its loss and rediscovery.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization 1
- Part I The Deindustrial Sublime
- Chapter 1 Industrial Demolition and the Meaning of Economic Change in North America 23
- Chapter 2 "Take only pictures and leave only footprints": Urban Exploration and the Aesthetics of Deindustrialization 41
- Chapter 3 From Cradle to Grave: The Politics of Memory in Youngstown, Ohio 65
- Part II Oral History and Photography
- Chapter 4 Out of Place: The Plant Shutdown Stories of Sturgeon Falls (Ontario) Paperworkers 91
- Chapter 5 Gabriel's Detroit 119
- Chapter 6 Deindustrial Fragments 131
- Chapter 7 King Coal: The Coal Counties of West Virginia 145
- Chapter 8 A Vanishing Landmark: Allied Paper in Kalamazoo, Michigan 151.
- ISBN:
- 9780801474019
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