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Building the Workingman's Paradise - The Design of American Company Towns (Paperback, New)
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Building the Workingman's Paradise - The Design of American Company Towns (Paperback, New)
Series: Haymarket
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This innovative and absorbing book surveys a little known chapter
in the story of American urbanism-the history of communities built
and owned by single companies seeking to bring their workers' homes
and place of employment together on a single site. By 1930 more
than two million people lived in such towns, dotted across an
industrial frontier which stretched from Lowell, Massachusetts,
through Torrance, California to Norris, Tennessee. Margaret
Crawford focuses on the transformation of company town construction
from the vernacular settlements of the late eighteenth century to
the professional designs of architects and planners one hundred and
fifty years later. Eschewing a static architectural approach which
reads politics, history, and economics through the appearance of
buildings, Crawford portrays the successive forms of company towns
as the product of a dynamic process, shaped by industrial
transformation, class struggle, and reformers' efforts to control
and direct these forces.
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