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Industrial City

Abstract

An industrial city is an urban place in which manufacturing dominates the local economy and, by extension, the environment and social relations. Such cities have often been associated with high levels of air and/or water pollution. The social structure and class relations of their workplaces are often polarized and this is both reflected and reproduced in a simplified social geography. This was especially true in smaller centers and company …

Authors

Harris R

Book title

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Pagination

pp. 383-388

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

2009

DOI

10.1016/b978-008044910-4.01056-7