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Helena Chance - The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age - 9781784993009 - V9781784993009
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The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age

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Description for The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age Hardback. This book aims to explore the designed landscapes associated with factories and corporations in the UK and US created since the industrial revolution. It is largely historical, focusing on the period between 1890 and 1930 but it comes right up to date with initiatives such as secret gardens and vegetable allotments at the London Google offices. Series Editor(s): Breward, Christopher. Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 60 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMG; HBG; HBTK; KJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 177 x 248 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
When we think about Victorian factories, 'Dark Satanic Mills' might spring to mind - images of blackened buildings and exhausted, exploited workers struggling in unhealthy and ungodly conditions. But for some employees this image was far from the truth, and this is the subject of 'The Factory in a Garden' which traces the history of a factory gardens movement from its late-eighteenth century beginnings in Britain to its twenty-first century equivalent in Google's vegetable gardens at their headquarters in California. The book is the first study of its kind examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies in Design and Material Culture
Condition
New
Weight
661g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784993009
SKU
V9781784993009
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Helena Chance
Helena Chance is Reader in History and Theory of Design at Buckinghamshire New University -- .

Reviews for The Factory in a Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
'These gardens have not been much studied, so that Helena Chance's The Factory in a Garden: a History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age comes as a welcome addition to the garden library. Chance covers the period from Robert Owen in the early 19th century to the carefully designed office gardens of today but she majors ... Read more

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