Modern Living "hewn out of the unknown wilderness": Aluminum, City Planning, and Alcan’s British Columbian Industrial Town of Kitimat in the 1950s

Auteur(s) : Cross, Brad

• Notice du document

  Titre / Title

  Modern Living "hewn out of the unknown wilderness": Aluminum, City Planning, and Alcan’s British Columbian Industrial Town of Kitimat in the 1950s

  Auteur(s) / Author(s)

  Cross Brad, auteur principal

  Type de document

  Article

  Collection

  Revue d'histoire urbaine / Urban History Review , N° 1 vol 45, p. 7-17

  Publication

  Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2016

  Description technique / Physical description

  11 p.; non évalué

• Langue / Language

  Anglais

• Description

  • Résumé / Abstract

    Résumé en début d'article : 
    
    

    "As a new town on the Northern British Columbian frontier, Kitimat represented mid-twentieth-century ideas of industrial resource development and town planning. Alcan executives saw Kitimat’s town design as crucial to the recruitment and retention of a workforce for its megaproject of the 1950s and 1960s, which became the crown jewel of its global enterprise. The combination of high-tech aluminum production and town planning techniques promised employees a family-oriented lifestyle in a state-of-the-art town. Kitimat spearheaded this push for a new kind of frontier experience."