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Author Mah, Alice.

Title Industrial ruination, community, and place : landscapes and legacies of urban decline / Alice Mah.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  HT151 .M342 2012    Available  ---
Description viii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
Summary "Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In this enlightening new book, Alice Mah explores the experiences of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different community contexts: Niagara Falls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia.
Employing a unique methodological approach that combines ethnographic, spatial, and documentary methods, Mah draws on international comparisons of the landscapes and legacies of industrial ruination over the past forty years. Through this, she foregrounds the complex challenges of living with prolonged uncertainty and deprivation amidst socioeconomic change. This rich comparative study makes an essential contribution to far-reaching debates about the decline of manufacturing, regeneration, and identity, and will have important implications for urban theory and policy."--pub. desc.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Shrinking cities -- Case studies.
Shrinking cities.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Shrinking cities -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Social aspects.
Collective memory -- Case studies.
Collective memory.
Deindustrialization -- Social aspects.
Deindustrialization -- Social aspects.
Deindustrialization.
Collective memory and city planning.
Collective memory and city planning.
Genre/Form Case studies.
ISBN 9781442613577 paperback
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9781442645493 cloth
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