The Landscape of Industry: Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge

The Landscape of Industry: Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge
ISBN-10
1134967659
ISBN-13
9781134967650
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2005-06-20
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Catherine Clark, Judith Alfrey

Description

The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between landscape and industry. Industrialisation is itself shaped and constrained by the landscape in which it occurs, and the authors consider the interaction of environment and industry as the accumulation of an inheritance which in each generation influences the course and content of future development. The Landscape of Industry sets the agenda both for further study and for the integrated management of landscape resources.

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