Industrial Cities

Foreword

Introduction: ‘Industrial Cities-History and Future’

Clemens Zimmermann

Part 1

Research Perspectives and Historical Developments

Beyond Coketown: The Industrial City in the Twentieth Century

Simon Gunn

The Contested Industrial City:

Governing pollution in France and Germany, 1810-1930

Christoph Bernhardt

Echoes of Industrialization: Cities and the Trajectories of Development

Richard Rodger

Networks and the Industrial Metropolis: Chicago’s Calumet district, 1870-1940

Robert Lewis

Part 2

Crisis and Recovery

In-Between: The Conversion of Former Iron and Steel Industry Sites and Cities in the Saarland-Uneven and Complex Development Paths

Peter Dörrenbächer

The Industrial City as a Shrinking City and the Special Case of Flint, MI

Christine Hanneman

Crisis in Automotive Cities: The Ambivalent Role of the Car Industry in the “Autostadt” Wolfsburg and “Motor City” Detroit

Martina Heßler

Comeback Cities? Urban Recovery Approaches in European Industrial Cities

Jörg Plöger

Part 3

Cultural and Sociological Concepts

Fordist Elements of the Industrial City in Germany and the United States

Adelheid von Saldern

The Utopian Industrial City: The Case of the Baťa City of Zlín (Republic of Czechoslovakia)

Martin Jemelka and Ondřej Ševeček

Social Engineering, the Factory and Urban Environment:

Cadbury/Bournville and Opel/Rüsselsheim (1878-1960)

Timo Luks

A Town Without Memory? Inferring the Industrial Past: Clydebank Re-built, 1941-2013

Rebecca Madgin

Part 4

The Mediated Industrial City

Representing the Industrial City: Rotterdam, 1880-1970

Judist Thissen

Representations of Industrial Cities in Photo Books and Promotional Films of the 1950s and 1960s

Rolf Sachsse

Tradition and Contrast: Industrial Cities and Industrial Work in the Documentaries of Michael Glawogger: From “Megacities” (1998) to “Working Man’s Death” (2005)

Henry Keazor

Notes on Contributors

Index