Pastoral Capitalism
A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Louise A. Mozingo

| ISBN: | 9780262015431 |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Published: | 14 October, 2011 |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Language: | English |
| Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
Pastoral Capitalism
A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes (Urban and Industrial Environments)
Louise A. Mozingo
By the end of the twentieth century, America's suburbs contained more office space than its central cities. Many of these corporate workplaces were surrounded, somewhat incongruously, by verdant vistas of broad lawns and leafy trees. In Pastoral Capitalism, Louise Mozingo describes the evolution of these central (but often ignored) features of postwar urbanism in the context of the modern capitalist enterprise. These new suburban corporate landscapes emerged from a historical moment when corporations reconceived their management structures, the city decentralized and dispersed into low-density, auto-dependent peripheries, and the pastoral--in the form of leafy residential suburbs--triumphed as an American ideal. Greenness, writes Mozingo, was associated with goodness, and pastoral capitalism appropriated the suburb's aesthetics and moral code. Like the lawn-proud suburban homeowner, corporations understood a pastoral landscape's capacity to communicate identity, status, and right-mindedness. Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere &





















