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Manufacturing Suburbs : Building Work And Home.

Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban hist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lewis, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Preface; 1 Industry and the Suburbs; 2 Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950; 3 The Emergence of Industrial Districts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore; 4 Model City? Industry and Urban Structure in Chicago; 5 A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929; 6 Industry Builds Out the City: The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area, ; 7 Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920; 8 The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in Toronto,1881-1951.
  • 9 "Nature's Workshop": Industry and Urban Expansionin Southern California, 1900-195010 "The American Disease of Growth": Henry Fordand the Metropolitanization of Detroit, 1920-1940; 11 Suburbanization and the Employment Linkage; Notes; About the Contributors; Index.