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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Industrial History"”.
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Industrial history, mutagenicity, and hydrologic transport of pollutants in the Aberjona watershed
Thesis (Civ. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1991.
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From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment
The outcomes of preserving and incorporating industrial building fabric and related infrastructure, such as railways, docks and cranes, in redeveloped waterfront sites have yet to be fully understood by planners, preservationists, public administrators or developers. Case studies of Pittsburgh, …
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The origins and consequences of the American feedlot system.
This thesis examines the history and the consequences of the American feedlot system. Until this system came into place, cattle were rarely eaten as they were more valuable alive for their milk and labor than they were for meat. The change that this system facilitated has transformed the American …
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"It was all about the working class” : Norm Gallagher, the BLF and the Australian Labor Movement
… one of the most significant events in Australian industrial relations history. The union and its general secretary, Norm Gallagher, continue to excite passionate debate whenever their names are invoked. Portrayed as the ugly face of trade unionism, Gallagher and the BLF provided national and state …
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The FACTory: Unearthing the forgotten industry of Cape Town
… object will uncover, narrate and reclaim its own industrial past, through its reprogramming, and will act as an urban catalyst within its otherwise stark context. Industrial Archaeology is the study of material evidence associated with the industrial past, and the heritage significance thereof. It …
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Green trails as catalyst: revitalization of six post-mining towns in Illinois
… post-mining towns for their important history and culture. Since being surrounded with features from the past is considered an excellent way to learn about the environment and history (Lynch 1972, 53), this thesis proposes to generate green trails to connect the features and form a …
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Re-Presencing Woodstock Gasworks: Remediation and re-imagination of an industrial landscape
… landscape, it was about a wasted piece of post-industrial land that was intended to be programmatically re-imagined to redefine our relationship with infrastructure. The second part and final outcome is a building proposal. Its function has been formed through my initial agenda of redefining the …
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Cloverdale Furnace: a century of iron manufacture in Botetourt County Virginia, 1789-1889
… questions concerning early 19th Century American industrial history, it is often necessary to supplement generally accepted premises with observations of particular instances. This study of Cloverdale Furnace constitutes such an observation. Particular attention has been paid to details of person, …
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Community change in the Northern forest
… community became stigmatized on the basis of industrially-produced environmental harm, and this negative image has proven a subtle, though real obstacle to redevelopment. The physical decline of the city's built environment, the mill site's central location, and a heavily industrialized river …
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A museum of movement : reinterpreting the industrial landscape
… space was created and maintained by continuing industrial and infrastructural concern. The physical site, all of the industrial residue, and the large-scale infrastructure has been built in the past-and is being built in the present- to support the metropolis of Boston. The architectural …
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State, Resources and the Development of Modern Manufacturing in Zambia, 1924-1973
… dissertation examines the modern manufacturing history of Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia), focusing on the period when it was administrated as a British protectorate, 1924-1964, until the full nationalization of mining and manufacturing companies in 1973. Many studies have considered the …
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Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989
… own narratives – of resilience, belonging and of industrial decline – through unsanctioned creative practices. This came in the form of photographs, film, pranks and the unofficial production of printed materials (foreign orders). The key theoretical and methodological contribution of this …
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The Vancouver Island brewing industry: 1858 - 1917
… primary documents with which to reconstruct its history. Consequently, much reliance was placed on the records of other agencies, mainly those of government which, while comprehensive in some areas, are often incomplete or contradictory in others. Such information was augmented from a variety of …
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South Chattanooga and Chattanooga Creek floodplain: A case study
… due to its large minority population and industrial history. Utilizing the case study approach, the area was examined as both an environmental justice community and home to an active Superfund site. Through legal analysis, historical research, environmental sampling, and government agency …
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Small city neighbors: race, space, and class in Mansfield, Ohio
… investigates social relations in a small deindustrializing city to analyze the socio-spatial specificity of class, “race relations,” and small city “cityness” within the United States. I base my arguments on research conducted over five years (2005-2010) in Mansfield, Ohio—a multiracial, …