Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850 to 1930 (Creating the North American Landscape) - Hardcover

Lewis, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080186349X ISBN 13: 9780801863493

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

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Book by Lewis Robert

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"An admirable book that has the potential to make a significant contribution to our understanding of industrial decentralization. Lewis not only provides rich insights into the process which go far beyond what is available for any single city in this time period, but he also places the process in the larger context of the city, including utilities, infrastructure, and decision making. These other components are woven together to show how they all contributed to the process of industrial decentralization." -- David R. Meyer, Brown University

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In Manufacturing Montreal Robert Lewis provides a detailed historical geographic account of a major North American city's industrial landscape from the beginnings of industrialization to the Great Depression. Challenging the traditional view that urban expansion due to industrial decentralization is a twentieth-century phenomenon, Lewis demonstrates that the process of industrial decentralization has been ongoing since the 1850s.

Lewis's overall thesis is that the economic and social imperatives underlying industrial capitalism periodically reshaped the manufacturing geography of Montreal, as it did in many other North American cities. Time and again, the move of factories to the urban fringe shaped the social geography of the city by creating working-class residential neighborhoods. A particular strength of the book is its detailed examination of the role that utilities, transportation, technological change, investment, political control of land use, and labor markets had in the manufacturing of Montreal's factory districts.

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• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 080186349X
• ISBN 13: 9780801863493
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360