The factory in a garden: A history of corporate landscapes from the industrial to the digital age
- Submitting institution
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Buckinghamshire New University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 15754
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 978-1-7849-9300-9
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526112972/9781526112972.xml?rskey=sScgk2&result=1
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- 265 pp; 68 images; 27-page gazetteer. This is the first study examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and the United States from the eighteenth century as a model for reshaping the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. Primary evidence was obtained from site visits, company, museum, and library archives including on a six-week funded visit to Washington DC, Delaware, Illinois and Ohio. The archival evidence, supported by substantial cross-disciplinary secondary sources, gives new insights into the contribution of gardens and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices.
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- Additional information
- This is the first study examining the development of parks, gardens, and outdoor leisure facilities for factories in Britain and the United States as a model for the reshaping of the corporate environment in the twenty-first century. This is also the first book to give a comprehensive account of the contribution of gardens, gardening and recreation to the history of responsible capitalism and ethical working practices. The only other book of its kind is Louise Mozingo’s Pastoral Capitalism. A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes (MIT, 2011), which focuses on examples from the USA in the second half of the twentieth century and argues that corporate landscapes were an American ‘invention’ of the post-War period. The Factory in a Garden takes a revisionist position and argues that the typology of a corporate recreational landscape was developed in England in the late nineteenth century, exemplified at Cadbury, Bournville. In the first half of the twentieth century, landscape architects in both nations seized on the opportunities presented by corporate outdoor recreation and US and UK companies productively exchanged theories and practices. In the twenty-first century, the powerful tech sector is driving innovation in corporate landscaping. The Factory in the Garden therefore presents significant new knowledge about the history of the design, production and use of green space in a business environment, and places current practices into historical context.
Reviews include: ‘This is a formidable work of scholarship.’ (Historic Gardens Review, 44); ‘Chance has written a wonderful work that will be referenced by garden history and labor history scholars for years to come.'(NYBG Plant talk); ‘The author… devotes a chapter to the use of garden images…, providing a unique visual glimpse of the development of the corporate image.’ (Garden History 46:1, 2018); ‘a landmark study’ The Financial Times, 12th May 2018.
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- Non-English
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