Industrial Ruination, Community and Place Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline

Name: Industrial Ruination, Community and Place Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline
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ISBN: 9781442613577

ISBN-10: 1442613572

ISBN-13: 9781442613577

Edition: 2012

Authors: Alice Mah

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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.…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 10/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Case Studies



"When the Smell Goes, the Jobs Go": Ambivalent Nostalgia and Traumatic Memory in Niagara Falls



Protracted Decline and Imminent Regeneration: Memory and Uncertainty in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne



"We Ruined Everything around Us, but We Couldn't Change Ourselves": Enduring Soviet and Textile Identities in Ivanovo



Themes of Industrial Ruination



Reading Landscapes of Ruination, Deprivation, and Decline



Devastation, but also Home



Imagining Change, Reinventing Place



Conclusion


Notes


References


Index