Catalan industrial architecture in the last quarter of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th century

The economy of Catalonia experienced a major surge from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, primarily because of two crucial factors: first, the industrialisation process, chiefly with the development of the textile sector, and secondly the revival of the agricultural sector, with the extensive cultivation of vineyards around the land. In both cases, non-traditional architectural typologies had to be “reinvented” or built in Catalonia: the factories that manufactured textiles or other products, industrial colonies, the wineries where wine and its spirits were crafted, and the flour mills

Industries without Smokestacks

Structural transformation in Africa has become a hot topic. One of the earliest stylized facts of development economics is that low-income countries have large differences in output per worker across sectors, and movement of workers from low- to high-productivity sectors—structural transformation is a key driver of economic growth. Between 1950 and 2006, about half of the catch-up by developing countries—led by East Asia—to advanced economy productivity levels was due to rising productivity within manufacturing combined with structural transformation out of agriculture. Manufacturing has the capacity to employ large numbers of unskilled workers, is capable of large productivity gains through innovation, and entails tradeable products that permit economies of scale and specialization. But manufacturing in Africa, rather than leading growth, has typically been a lagging sector. In 2014, the average share of manufacturing in GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 10 per cent, unchanged from the 1970s, leading some observers to be pessimistic about Africa’s potential to catch the wave of sustained rapid growth and rising incomes. This book challenges that view. It argues that other activities sharing the characteristics of manufacturing—including tourism, ICT, and other services as well as food processing and horticulture—are beginning to play a role analogous to the role that manufacturing played in East Asia. This reflects not only changes in the global organization of industries since the early era of rapid East Asian growth, but also advantages unique to Africa. These ‘industries without smokestacks’ offer new opportunities for Africa to grow in coming decades

Bonneville International v. Utah State Tax Commission : Addenda

ADDENDUM TO BRIEF OF PETITIONER Petition for Review of the Final Order of the Utah State Tax Commissio

Nature and the city : ecohistory and environmental planning in Philadelphia, 1681-2000

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-97)."Nature" and "the city," as historical and practical ideas, have a complicated relationship in the human mind. In North America, since at least the seventeenth century, enduring contradictions have existed between visions of urban ecology in ideal and crisis terms, as well as between environmentalist and economic objectives. This thesis explores these tensions, tracing the course of ecohistory and environmental planning in the city and region of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, over more than three centuries and examining current challenges and practices of ecological planning as outgrowths of that history. In establishing his colony in the late seventeenth century, William Penn articulated a vision of a lush city of natural paradise in a region where land values and civic investment would be evenly distributed between town and countryside. However, Penn's plans contrasted with colonial Philadelphia's eventually dense, squalid city of merchants and immigrants, surrounded by country estates belonging to the region's elite families. In the industrial era, similar contradictions are found between interpretations of the city and its machines as beneficent or environmentally destructive forces. Great tensions exist between the city's growth along a rectilinear grid plan and the region's underlying geology. In the twentieth century, zoning and regional plans have aimed to foster "healthy" and balanced ecologies, while rapidly expanding suburbs conceived in a pastoral image have destroyed the "nature" that they attempt to inhabit. The ghettos of the inner city's declining industrial districts, meanwhile, have been plagued by high concentrations of pollution and homes sinking into creeks. Finally, in the later twentieth century, neighborhood and regional planners have confronted the problems of suburban sprawl and decaying ghettos with visions of alternative urban ecologies that are similar to - and sometimes explicitly reference - the plans of William Penn. Challenges and practices of environmental planning in Philadelphia may thus be conceived as parts of a long-term ecohistory of contradictions between environmentalist agendas and forces of economic growth, between visions of natural harmony and crises of environmental depredation.by Domenic Vitiello.M.C.P

Coal in Our Veins

Winner of the 2012 Evans Biography and Handcart Award, Coal in Our Veins employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of the book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah, where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions two of the worst mining disasters in American history and the history of coal development in Utah are explored in the second part

Industrial Archaeology. European approach to recovery productive memory

The book collects the contributions of an interdisciplinary work carried out during a BIP (Blended Intensive Program) funded by the European community. The topic is related to the abandoned industrial sites that are protected for historical interest. Starting from a comparison between the different approaches based on the study of the best practices and the different methods and tools of analysis, some premises have been defined for the representation of the site and the development of transformation hypotheses for reusing of the ex Corradi in S. Giovanni. Stimulating the cultural debate, dealing with different cultural realities, defining replicable methodological paths are the main objectives of this work

Toward Rust Belt Aesthetics: Exploring the Cultural Projects of the Deindustrialized U.S. Midwest

This thesis establishes the concept of Rust Belt aesthetics, a term for the artistic and cultural narratives that define, analyze, critique, or otherwise describe the deindustrialized U.S. Midwest, a region commonly referred to as the Rust Belt. This thesis explores how aesthetic projects re-present the experience of deindustrialization. The locus of this analysis is the region, and the thesis argues that the region operates as a discursive device that can mediate between and through other spatial “levels,” like the local or the global. Rust Belt aesthetics emerge from a moment of regional, national, and global transformations, and these aesthetics can construct the region to various political ends. The thesis analyzes aesthetics projects like advertisements, literature, and visual art in order to provide insight into the shifting economic, cultural, and social forces at play in the region and beyond. The goal of my analysis is not to arrive at a static definition of Rust Belt aesthetics. Instead, I hope to understand how aesthetic projects from and about the region communicate specific narratives about the Rust Belt, often through the lens of critical regionalism and the everyday life of the working class.ThesisDoctor of Philosophy (PhD

Greater Windsor Directory of Manufacturers 1958

Directory of industries and a cross-indexed list of products manufactured; includes a statistical profile of Windsor.https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/1036/thumbnail.jp

The Dinamos of the Magdalena River in Mexico. A route through the industrial heritage of the XIX century

openCe travail o propose un plan de valorisation de la route industrielle qui existait le long du cours de la rivière Magdalena à Mexico, en présentant l'analyse des aspects naturels,historiques, culturels et socio-économiques autour de la zone d'étude avec l'objectif de développer une nouvelle proposition de parc écotouristique, qui envisage les critères de valorisation du patrimoine pour la création d'un projet rentable et durableThis thesis proposes a plan for the valorization of the industrial route that existed alongside the course of the Magdalena River in Mexico City, presenting the analysis of natural, historical, and cultural and socio-economic aspects around the study area with the objective of the development of a new proposal of an ecotourism park, that contemplates the heritage valorization criteria for the creation of a profitable and sustainable project.This thesis proposes a plan for the valorization of the industrial route that existed alongside the course of the Magdalena River in Mexico City, presenting the analysis of natural, historical, and cultural and socio-economic aspects around the study area with the objective of the development of a new proposal of an ecotourism park, that contemplates the heritage valorization criteria for the creation of a profitable and sustainable project