The Company town : architecture and society in the early industrial age /

Company towns - those associated with textiles, mining, or tool manufacturing, for example - can be found worldwide and from antiquity to the present. But with the Industrial Revolution what had been the isolated incidence of such towns became a building phenomenon. This book describes and compares...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Garner, John S., 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Company town architecture > History > 19th century.
Architecture and society.
Villes fermées > Architecture > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Architecture et société.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Company town architecture.
Industriesteden.
Towns > History
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Merthyr Tydfil and early ironworks in south Wales / Bruce Thomas
  • Noisiel-sur-Marne and the ville industrielle in France / John S. Garner
  • The company town in Scandinavia / Mats Ahnlund, Lasse Brunnström
  • Early New England mill towns of the Piscataqua River valley / Richard M. Candee
  • Earle S. Draper and the company town in the American south / Margaret Crawford
  • Company towns in the western United States / Leland M. Roth
  • Company towns of Chile and Argentina / Olga Paterlini de Koch.

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