The Character of a Steel Mill City
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
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Page : 1588 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
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Page : 1586 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
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Author : Margaret Crawford
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780860914211
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.
Author : Pat Farabaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1467150010
Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood.
Author : Deborah Rudacille
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1400095891
As the American economy seeks to restructure itself, Roots of Steel is a powerful, candid, and eye-opening reminder of the people who have been left behind. When Deborah Rudacille was a child in the working-class town of Dundalk, Maryland, a worker at the local Sparrows Point steel mill made more than enough to comfortably support a family. But the decline of American manufacturing in the decades since has put tens of thousands out of work and left the people of Dundalk pondering the broken promise of the American dream. In Roots of Steel, Rudacille combines personal narrative, interviews with workers, and extensive research to capture the character and history of this once-prosperous community.
Author : Carl Begovich
Publisher : Published! an Affiliate of Village Voices Gallery
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Mafia
ISBN : 9780984682737
Frank Mattich--the first in his family to graduate college, the first in his family to go to prison. How does an ordinary school teacher become a mafia style kingpin, dealing in drugs and running a gambling enterprise? "Steel Mill Mafia--The Pittsburgh Connection" explains how a man of common circumstance can turn down the wrong path and how a core of innate goodness can redeem him.
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
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Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Hardware
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Page : 1706 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Industrial location
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