The Older Industrial Parks near Newport, Victoria
- Publisher
- The Velvet Cell
- Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-1-908889-45-4
- Specifications
- Softcover, Layflat-Binding
64 pages
175 × 240 mm
Limited edition of 500 copies
In 1974, Lewis Baltz’s seminal work, The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, explored a common American theme (the promised land defiled) in an uncommon place. For Baltz, industrial parks were a new phenomenon which would “cause severe dislocations in the local economy”. He was interested in “the effect of this kind of urbanism … Was it a world people could live in? Really?”.