Singing in the City: The Bonds of Home in an Industrial Landscape - Rilegato

Graham, Laurie

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ISBN 10: 0822940760 ISBN 13: 9780822940760

Casa editrice: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1998

Riassunto

Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done—both to people and to the environment, but she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart.
Singing the City is a celebration of a landscape that through most of its history has been unabashedly industrial. Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little understood and appreciated, Graham set out to investigate the city’s landscape, past and present, and to learn the lessons she sensed were there about living a good life. The result, told in both her voice and the distinctive voices of the people she meets, is a powerful contribution to the literature of place.
Graham begins by showing the city as an outgrowth of its geography and its geology—the factors that led to its becoming an industrial place. She describes the human investment in the area: the floods of immigrants who came to work in the mills in the late nineteenth and early  twentieth centuries, their struggles within the domains of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. She evokes the superhuman aura of making steel by taking the reader to still functioning mills and uncovers for us a richness of tradition in ethnic neighborhoods that survives to this day.

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Book by Graham Laurie

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• Editore: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0822940760
• ISBN 13: 9780822940760
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 182