Bringing together essays from leading experts who analyze how the landscapes, images, social dynamics, and economies of the industrial city have changed through boom and bust, this volume covers a wide range of subjects, from car cities to steel towns, from visualization of industrial cities in avant-garde art to the role of industrial heritage in urban regeneration. In total,Industrial Citiesmakes a significant contribution to our understanding of how the past shapes the future; it will be of interest not only to urban and economic historians, but also to social geographers and policy makers.
Clemens Zimmermannis chair of Cultural and Media History at Saarland University, Germany.
Foreword
Introduction: ‘Industrial Cities-History and Future’
Clemens Zimmermann
Part 1
Research Perspectives and Historical Developments
Beyond Coketown: The Industrial City in the Twentieth Century
Simon Gunn
The Contested Industrial City:
Governing pollution in France and Germany, 1810-1930
Christoph Bernhardt
Echoes of Industrialization: Cities and the Trajectories of Development
Richard Rodger
Networks and the Industrial Metropolis: Chicago’s Calumet district, 1870-1940
Robert Lewis
Part 2
Crisis and Recovery
In-Between: The Conversion of Former Iron and Steel Industry Sites and Cities in the Saarland-Uneven and Complex Development Paths
Peter Dörrenbächer
The Industrial City as a Shrinking City and the Special Case of Flint, MI
Christine Hanneman
Crisis in Automotive Cities: The Ambivalent Role of the Car Industry in the “Autostadt” Wolfsburg and “MlÓ8
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