Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Indexes to HUD Sponsored Comprehensive Planning Reports
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Library and Information Division
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: Edward K. Muller
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Avonmore Borough Comprehensive Plan
Author: Michael Baker Jr., Inc
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm, 1857-1979
Author: Lucy Lawliss
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Category : Landscape architectural projects
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Category : Landscape architectural projects
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Building the Workingman's Paradise
Author: Margaret Crawford
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860914211
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
Capital's Utopia
Author: Anne E. Mosher
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429241
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift. In Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth–century. In addition, by offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429241
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift. In Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth–century. In addition, by offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Author: John Newton Boucher
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Category : Westmoreland County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Category : Westmoreland County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Housing and Planning References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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The Making of Urban America
Author: John William Reps
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691006180
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691006180
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.
Annual Report
Author: Westmoreland County (Pa.). Planning Commission
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Publisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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