Title: Industrial ruination, community, and place : landscapes and legacies of urban decline /
Authors: Mah, Alice A. 1978-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Shrinking cities Case studies.; Shrinking cities Social aspects Case studies.; Collective memory Case studies.; Deindustrialization Social aspects.; Collective memory and city planning.
Abstract: "Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In this enlightening new book, Alice Mah explores the experiences of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different community contexts: Niagara Falls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia.
Contents: 1. Introduction -- Pt. One: Case studies -- 2. "When the smell goes, the jobs go" : ambivalent nostalgia and traumatic memory in Niagara Falls -- 3. Protracted decline and imminent regeneration : memory and uncertainty in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne -- 4. "We ruined everything around us, but we couldn't change ourselves" : enduring Soviet and textile identities in Ivanovo -- Pt. Two: Themes of industrial ruination -- 5. Reading landscapes of ruination, deprivation, and decline -- 6. Devastation, but also home -- 7. Imagining change, reinventing place -- 8. Conclusion