Manufacturing Montreal : the making of an industrial landscape, 1850 to 1930 /
"In Manufacturing Montreal Robert Lewis provides a detailed historical geographic account of a major North American city's industrial landscape from the beginnings of industrialization to the Great Depression. Challenging the traditional view that urban expansion due to industrial decentra...
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2000.
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape.
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Table of Contents:
- "Living Tendrils" North American Urban Manufacturing Districts
- Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1850 to 1890
- "Marvellous Rapidity" Montreal's Industrial Expansion
- "One Vast Block" The Making of the Central Manufacturing Districts
- "Factories and Industrial Establishments of Various Kinds" in the Eastern Manufacturing Districts
- "The Whirr of Machinery and the Booming Noise of a Thousand Hammers" in the Western Manufacturing Districts
- Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1890 to 1929
- "One of the Most Magnificent Cities" Montreal's Economy, Planning, and Housing, 1890 to 1929
- "Pierced by Another Giant Skyscraper" The Changing Fortunes of the Central Manufacturing Districts
- "Busy Hives of Industry" of the East and North Ends
- "Expanded in All Directions" The Western Manufacturing Districts
- Conclusion: Montreal's Manufacturing Districts, 1850 to 1929.