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 decentralization is a 20th-century phenomenon, Robert Lewis demonstrates that the process of industrialization has been ongoing since the 1850s. Lewis's overall thesis is that the economic and social imperatives underlying industrial capitalism periodically reshaped the manufacturing geography of Montreal, as it did in many other North American cities. Time and again, the move of factories to the urban fringe shaped the social geography of the city by creating working-class residential neighbourhoods. The book offers a detailed examination of the role that utilities, transportation, technological change, investment, political control of land use, and labour markets had in the manufacturing of Montreal's factory districts.
- ISBN10 080186349X
- ISBN13 9780801863493
- Publish Date 14 August 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English