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A Public Boathouse in Gary, Indiana

Pettinga, Anna

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2015, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In 1906 the United States Steel Corporation founded the city of Gary, Indiana. They built the city rapidly on the southernmost shores of Lake Michigan. The previously unsettled land along the shore consisted of rivers, swamps, dunes, and lakes. This land was quickly modified and organized for mechanized production. Editorial coverage of the new city ranged from dreams of a new industrial utopia to fears of deeply misplaced optimism in American industry. Planners for the city programmatically segregated housing and industry. The rapid development led to architectural experiments in materials to house the working class. Along the lake, the city’s architecture regurgitated by-products of the steel making process. The waste material extended the shoreline but failed to provide for a population living in the soot of the steel mills with recreational access to Lake Michigan.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
115 p.

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  • Pettinga, A. (2015). A Public Boathouse in Gary, Indiana [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897440

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pettinga, Anna. A Public Boathouse in Gary, Indiana. 2015. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897440.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pettinga, Anna. "A Public Boathouse in Gary, Indiana." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427897440

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)