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Abandoned factories, shipyards, warehouses, and refineries are features of many industrialized cities around the world. But despite their state of decline, these derelict sites remain vitally connected with the urban landscapes that surround them. In this enlightening new book, Alice Mah explores the experiences of urban decline and post-industrial change in three different community contexts: Niagara Falls, Canada/USA; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia.

Employing a unique methodological approach that combines ethnographic, spatial, and documentary methods, Mah draws on international comparisons of the landscapes and legacies of industrial ruination over the past forty years. Through this, she foregrounds the complex challenges of living with prolonged uncertainty and deprivation amidst socioeconomic change. This rich comparative study makes an essential contribution to far-reaching debates about the decline of manufacturing, regeneration, and identity, and will have important implications for urban theory and policy.

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• List of Figures(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1 Introduction(p. 3)
• Part 1 Case Studies
• 2 "When the Smell Goes, the Jobs Go": Ambivalent Nostalgia and Traumatic Memory in Niagara Falls(p. 37)
• 3 Protracted Decline and Imminent Regeneration: Memory and Uncertainty in Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne(p. 69)
• 4 "We Ruined Everything around Us, but We Couldn't Change Ourselves": Enduring Soviet and Textile Identities in Ivanovo(p. 98)
• Part 2 Themes of Industrial Ruination
• 5 Reading Landscapes of Ruination, Deprivation, and Decline(p. 129)
• 6 Devastation, but also Home(p. 153)
• 7 Imagining Change, Reinventing Place(p. 175)
• 8 Conclusion(p. 195)
• Notes(p. 203)
• References(p. 209)
• Index(p. 225)

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CHOICE Review

Sociologist Mah (Univ. of Warwick, UK) explores the aftermath of urban decline and postindustrial deindustrialization in three communities over the past 40 years: Niagara Falls, Canada/US; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK; and Ivanovo, Russia. She details the negative side of the transition from booming industrialization to a knowledge and service economy, using an interesting mix of methodologies. These combine ethnographic, spatial, and documentary methods, including approximately 80 interviews with residents, workers, city officials, trade unionists, urban planners, and community activists. Contexts studied include decaying industrial sites and abandoned shipyards in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, quarantined brownfields in Niagara Falls, and semi-abandoned textile factories in Ivanovo. Interestingly, her research indicates "no single model of economic growth should form the bases for post-industrial renewal." Particularly informative and interesting are how these derelict sites of industrial ruination become a lived process that endures in the lives of the townspeople years after the industries are either shut down or drastically downsized; the extent to which the inhabitants of the ruined cities, towns, and villages maintain a strong place attachment to their homes and communities; how residents in these contexts view this deindustrialization; and how this transformation can lead to new challenges and strengths. For researchers interested in industrial geography and urban sociology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. P. J. Venturelli Valparaiso University

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Alice Mahis an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick.