Factory in a Garden. History of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age
Details:
- Author(s) Chance, Helena
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2017
- Pages 265pp; illus
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee welfare inc working conditions, compensation, etc
- Name Advertising
- Name Buildings: structural issues
- Name Comparative international studies
Countries:
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
See the writers' doctoral thesis 'Factory in a Garden. Corporate recreational landscapes in England and the United States, 1880-1939', Oxford, 2011. Published in a series titled 'Studies in Design and Material Culture'. 'This book presents the history of the corporate gardens and designed landscapes in Britain and the United States from the origins in the early industrial revolution to the zenith of factory gardens in the years preceding the Second World War and concludes with an overview of the evolution of corporate landscapes from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present'. Includes a 'Select gazetteer - company gardens and parks, c1750-c1960 and offices and office parks with significant landscaping, 1970-2015' [pp214-41]