Morgan Park : Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town /

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From 1915 to 1971 the large U.S. Steel plant was a major part of Duluth's landscape and life. Just as important was Morgan Park's innovatively planned and close-knit community constructed for the plant's employees and their families. In this book Arnold R. Alanen presents vivid portra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alanen, Arnold R. (Arnold Robert)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States Steel Corporation.
United States Steel Corporation > History.
Steel industry and trade.
Company towns.
City planning.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Steel industry and trade > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
City planning > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
Company towns > Minnesota > Duluth > History.
Minnesota > Duluth.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:From 1915 to 1971 the large U.S. Steel plant was a major part of Duluth's landscape and life. Just as important was Morgan Park's innovatively planned and close-knit community constructed for the plant's employees and their families. In this book Arnold R. Alanen presents vivid portraits of Morgan Park, the formerly company-controlled town that now stands as a city neighborhood, and the U.S. Steel plant for which it was built. Planned by renowned landscape architects, architects, and engineers,
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780816653720

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