![]() Noisiel-sur-Marne and the Ville Industrielle in France, 43 John S. Merthyr Tydfil and Early Ironworks in South Wales, 17 Bruce Thomas I COMPANY TOWNS IN EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIA 1. Jane Cook, also of the University of Illinois, kindly typed the final manuscript. Finally, I acknowledge a debt to the Fulbright-Hays program for a senior research award to France, and to the University of Illinois, where I am professor of architecture, for a sabbatical to pursue my interest in French villages. Roth's counterpart on the subject of resource towns is Olga Paterlini de Koch, professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Tucuman, Argentina, whose research was also known to me. His research was assisted in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In addition to the participants in the session, Leland Roth, professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon, attended the Boston meeting and brought to bear his considerable knowledge of resource towns in the American West. By contrast, Bruce Thomas, assistant professor of architecture at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, shared the results of his studies in South Wales. A complement to his chapter was offered by Margaret Crawford, assistant professor of architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Candee, professor of American and New England Studies at Boston University, had only to travel across town to share his knowledge of New England. My thanks go to Mats Ahnlund and Lasse Brunnstrom, senior lecturers in architectural and landscape history at Umea University in Sweden, who traveled far to participate in the session. I hope that we have succeeded on both accounts. ![]() The outcome hinged on the uncertainty of whether the participants could expand their papers into chapters, and whether I could round out the collection to produce a useful volume. Joyce Berry of Oxford University Press attended the session and suggested that I edit the papers. In April 1990 I chaired a session on the subject in a meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians held in Boston. This book owes its existence to a growing interest in the history of industrial landscapes and the vernacular buildings that defined them. Company town architecture-History-19th century. Includes bibliographical reference and index. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Company town : architecture and society in the early industrial age / edited by John S. ![]() No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin IbadanĬopyright © 1992 by Oxford University Press, Inc. New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1992 THE COMPANY TOWN Architecture and Society in the Early Industrial Age Edited by
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