Company suburbs: architecture, power, and the transformation of Michigan's mining frontier

"Sarah Fayen Scarlett's book examines the development and social consequences of suburbanization in Michigan's Copper Country. Scarlett argues that as mining towns began to fail in the late nineteenth century, an emerging middle-class elite began building architecturally unique housin...

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1. Verfasser: Scarlett, Sarah Fayen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Karte
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville The University of Tennessee Press [2021]
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung:"Sarah Fayen Scarlett's book examines the development and social consequences of suburbanization in Michigan's Copper Country. Scarlett argues that as mining towns began to fail in the late nineteenth century, an emerging middle-class elite began building architecturally unique housing, following national trends but using preexisting materials and company housing policies, to escape the multiethnic workers' housing within the old company town. This unusual form of suburbanization belies the assumption that suburbs and industry were independent developments"--
Beschreibung:Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2014, under the title: Everyone's an outsider : architecture, landscape, and class in Michigan's Copper Country
Beschreibung:xvi, 291 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne 27 cm
ISBN:9781621906773

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