Sustainable Tourism in New England Gateway Cities a Case Study of New Bedford, Massachusetts
Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: These historic centers of manufacturing in New England played an important role in the economic success, not only of the region, but also in most other parts of the country.In 1969, Jane Jacobs recognized the importance of the work done in these mill cities:In the nineteenth century, saws and axes made in New England cleared the forests of Ohio; New England ploughs broke the prairie sod, New England scales weighed wheat and meat in Texas; New England serge clothed businessmen in San Francisco; New England cutlery skinned hides to be tanned in Milwaukee and sliced apples to be dried in Missouri; New England whale oil lit lamps across the continent; New England blankets warmed children by night and New England textbooks preached at them by day; New England guns armed the troops; and New England dies, lathes, looms, forges, presses and screwdrivers outfitted factories far and wide. 1 These locations, to name only a few, include Woonsocket and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Manchester, New Hampshire, Saco, Maine, Willimantic, Connecticut, Winooski, Vermont, and Uxbridge and Webster, Massachusetts.Many, if not all, of New England's deindustrialized cities are known as Gateway Cities.This means that they have historical connections to various industries, high numbers of immigrants, a lower class population, and economic struggles.The industries, which made these cities, initially, wealthy or famous, have all diminished in capacity or altogether.MassInc. is an independent organization, founded in 1996, which hopes to shape public policy in Massachusetts with solid research and data and 1 Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities, (New York: Random House, 1969), 203.
Author: Carolyn S. Barry
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2126702140