I did a painting, Shoe City, based on the single -
industry factory towns in China, in which the painting's physical landscape is somewhat washed out or desaturated in response to the particulate matter in the air, but also in response to the notion that maybe the landscape is secondary to what's being made in the factories.
Not exact matches
Urbanisation (the movement of people from rural areas to
towns and cities) and industrialisation (the development of manufacturing
industries) requires investment in new housing,
factories and transport infrastructure — all of which use steel in their construction.
Members of the Adams family, who owned the major
industry in the
town of Wiltshire, had built without assistance from the townspeople both the first and the present church building, the latter a replica of a beautiful Anglican church in England but made from the same sandstone used to construct the Adams
factory.
But it's not an
industry town, nor is it part of the music
factory in the way of New York, Los Angeles and even its neighbor to the east, Nashville.
Banality masquerades as sensationalism in the San Fernando Valley, a
factory town for the entertainment
industry.
Bellows Falls got its start through entrepreneurs building mills and
factories in the
town, eventually leading to the addition of two railroads in the
town, to support its growing
industry.