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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louise A Mozingo |
| ISBN: | 9780262015431 0262015439 |
| OCLC Number: | 664840023 |
| Description: | x, 315 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Postwar corporations, cities, and the pastoral landscape -- The corporation in the suburbs -- The corporate campus -- The corporate estate -- The office park -- Global pastoral capitalism. |
| Series Title: | Urban and industrial environments. |
| Responsibility: | Louise A. Mozingo. |
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"Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, and China. Mozingo argues that, even as it is proliferating, pastoral capitalism needs redesign, as do many of our metropolitan forms, for pressing social, cultural, political, and environmental reasons. Future transformations are impossible, however, unless we understand the past. Pastoral Capitalism offers an indispensible chapter in urban history, examining not only the design of corporate landscapes but also the economic, social, and cultural models that determined their form."--Dust jacket p.1.
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"Mozingo is no apologist for suburban corporate expansion, and in sketching out its history, builds to a conclusion not much different from many other critics of urban planning -- that sprawling development has reinforced an unsustainable dependency on cars...Mozingo has provided a backstory to the business park that weaves together corporate history, academic-commercial collaboration, and design innovation to fill in an unfairly overlooked chapter in the modern geography of life and work." -- Anthony Paletta, Bookforum Read more...
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