Manufacturing suburbs [[electronic resource] ] : building work and home on the metropolitan fringe / / edited by Robert Lewis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778060903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University, 2004
• ISBN: 9786612329067; 1-282-32906-5; 1-59213-794-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LewisRobert D. <1954->
• Disciplina: 307.76/0973
• Soggetti: Suburbs - United States - History; Suburbs - Canada - History; Manufacturing industries - United States - History; Manufacturing industries - Canada - History; Working class - United States - History; Working class - Canada - History; Urbanization - United States - History; Urbanization - Canada - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes some original papers commissioned for this collection and some previously published in issues of the Journal of historical geography and the Geographical review.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 history, Manufacturing Suburbs reclaims the history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. Contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing