Alice Mah

Industrial Ruination, Community and Place

Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613577
• ISBN-10: 1442613572
• Artikelnr.: 36185194

Autorenporträt

Alice Mah is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
PART ONE: Case Studies
Chapter 2 “When the smell goes, the jobs go”: Ambivalent nostalgia and
traumatic memory in Niagara Falls
Chapter 3 Protracted decline and imminent regeneration: Memory and
uncertainty in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne
Chapter 4 “We ruined everything around us, but we couldn’t change
ourselves”: Enduring Soviet and textile identities in Ivanovo
PART TWO: Themes of Industrial Ruination
Chapter 5 Reading landscapes of ruination, deprivation and decline
Chapter 6 Devastation but also home
Chapter 7 Imagining change, reinventing place
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Notes
References