The Exile of Industry from the City Beautiful: Portland Oregon's Guilds Lake Industrial Area (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Portland, Oregon's Guilds Lake industrial area is a microcosm of civic dreams, economic and industrial policy, and urban planning. Once a lake, the area was the site of the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition, Portland's take on the Great White City built in Chicago twelve years before. Like the exposition's inspiration, however, the fair was only temporary, and after this vision of the City Beautiful departed, the lake bed took on a new role for civic leaders: as a dumping ground to hide the objectionable but necessary industrial aspects of the city. This short eBooklet provides an overview of Guilds Lake as an industrial district, beginning with early plans and failures, the district's role as a prototype industrial park, and the forces that would supplant it as an economic force.