Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Frontier.(Book review)

Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Frontier

edited by Robert Lewis, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2004, viii + 294 pp., paper US$24.95 (ISBN 1-59213-086-0)

If the recent pace of loft creation in former industrial buildings throughout the North American urban system is any indication, public interest in Manufacturing Suburbs has never been greater since the time of their creation in the mid- to late-19th and early 20th centuries. Manufacturing Suburbs, then, is a timely and welcome addition to the literature on North American urban development. According to editor Robert Lewis, this volume has three aims: (1) to assemble in one collection, for the first time, a selection of recent research on industrial suburbanization and …