Fazio (architecture, Mississippi State U.) presents a history of Birmingham, Alabama's built environment for architectural historians, urban planners, and historic preservationists. Along with
b&w and color photos, maps, and drawings, he discusses Birmingham's landscape at the geological scale, initial town planning and early architectural development, and the formation of
iron-making companies and their construction of furnaces. He then covers the contributions of residential land developer Robert Jemison, Jr., the city during the Depression and the housing
built for working-class individuals, the urban environments in which civil rights events occurred, and the development of the U. of Alabama at Birmingham and its medical center. Annotation
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