Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place - Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline - Grand Format

Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are common features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite appearances, these derelict structures remain profoundly connected to the urban fabric that surrounds them. In this thought-provoking new book, Alice Mah explores the processes of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different communities : Niagara Falls, Canada / USA ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK ; and Ivanovo, Russia.
Mah employs a unique case-study approach that combines site and ethnographic observations, spatial analysis, and analysis of archival, documentary, and photographic materials. Through comparison of the landscapes and legacies of industrial ruination over the past forty years, she examines the challenges residents experience in the face of prolonged economic uncertainty and deprivation. Methodologically sophisticated and richly evocative, this comparative study makes an original contribution to long-standing debates about deindustrialization, regeneration, and personal and collective identity, and will have important implications for urban theory and policy.