Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town

摘要

Over his career, Arnold Alanen, emeritus professor of landscape architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied many iron- and copper-mining towns and planned communities in the Great Lakes region. In Morgan Park he turns to a planned company town located just south of Duluth that was once owned and controlled by U.S. Steel. Alanen's study of this industrial community is a very good one because he emphasizes the conjoined histories of its two key parts-the townsite with its houses, streets, and social institutions, and the adjacent steel mill, with its furnacesrnand products, its good years and its bad. The people who populate the book move back and forth between the two places.