Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe

by Robert D Lewis

Overview

Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, Manufacturing Suburbs reclaims the history of working-class suburbs by examining the development of industrial suburbs in the United States and Canada between 1850 and 1950. Contributors demonstrate that these suburbs developed in large part because of the location of manufacturing beyond city limits and the subsequent building of housing for the workers who labored within those factories. Through case studies of industrial suburbanization and industrial suburbs in several metropolitan areas (Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Montreal), Manufacturing Suburbs sheds light on a key phenomenon of metropolitan development before the Second World War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592130856
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	11/28/2004
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
1	Industry and the Suburbs	1
2	Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950	16
3	The Emergence of Industrial Districts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore	32
4	Model City? Industry and Urban Structure in Chicago	53
5	A City Transformed: Manufacturing Districts and Suburban Growth in Montreal, 1850-1929	76
6	Industry Builds Out the City: The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1940	92
7	Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920	124
8	The Suburbanization of Manufacturing in Toronto, 1881-1951	143
9	"Nature's Workshop": Industry and Urban Expansion in Southern California, 1900-1950	178
10	"The American Disease of Growth": Henry Ford and the Metropolitanization of Detroit, 1920-1940	200
11	Suburbanization and the Employment Linkage	221
	Notes	237
	About the Contributors	285
	Index	287