Main entry:

Mah, Alice.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.

Description:

viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
1. Introduction -- pt. One: Case studies -- 2. "When the smell goes, the jobs go" : ambivalent nostalgia and traumatic memory in Niagara Falls -- 3. Protracted decline and imminent regeneration : memory and uncertainty in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne -- 4. "We ruined everything around us, but we couldn't change ourselves" : enduring Soviet and textile identities in Ivanovo -- pt. Two: Themes of industrial ruination -- 5. Reading landscapes of ruination, deprivation, and decline -- 6. Devastation, but also home -- 7. Imagining change, reinventing place -- 8. Conclusion.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781442613577
1442613572
9781442645493 (bound)
1442645490 (bound)

Subject:

Shrinking cities Case studies.
Shrinking cities Social aspects Case studies.
Collective memory Case studies.
Deindustrialization Social aspects.
Collective memory and city planning.
Villes en décroissance Études de cas.
Villes en décroissance Aspect social Études de cas.
Mémoire collective Études de cas.
Désindustrialisation Aspect social.
Mémoire collective et urbanisme.
Collective memory.
Shrinking cities.
Stadt
Schrumpfen
Deindustrialisierung
Stadtentwicklung
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Niagara Falls, NY
Iwanowo

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285689
Call No.: BIB 225527
Status: Available