Company suburbs : architecture, power, and the transformation of Michigan's mining frontier
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xvi, 291 pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 27 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"Sarah Fayen Scarlett's book examines the development and social consequences of suburbanization in Michigan's Copper Country. Scarlett argues that as mining towns began to fail in the late nineteenth century, an emerging middle-class elite began building architecturally unique housing, following national trends but using preexisting materials and company housing policies, to escape the multiethnic workers' housing within the old company town. This unusual form of suburbanization belies the assumption that suburbs and industry were independent developments"--
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2014, under the title: Everyone's an outsider : architecture, landscape, and class in Michigan's Copper Country.
Subjects
- Suburbs > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
- Middle class > Dwellings > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula.
- Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 19th century.
- Architecture and society > Michigan > Keweenaw Peninsula > History > 20th century.
- Keweenaw Peninsula (Mich.) > Social conditions.