Fashioning Regions, Re-Fashioning Nature: Resource-Based Industrialization and the Production of Rural-Urban Systems in the 19th Century United States

科罗拉多大学丹佛分校的这项研究聚焦于19世纪美国的工业化和区域发展。主要目标是确定城乡联系的性质和程度，并记录爱荷华州东部和科罗拉多州北部两个区域的城市和农村的共同建设情况。这项研究旨在追踪区域经济中开采和制造的联系，强调以资源为基础的工业化对美国经济增长的核心作用，并将农村社会和环境变化与城市扩张过程直接联系起来。将采用区域比较办法来审查城乡联系的发展情况。此外，还将使用以生产为基础的方法来审查特定于商品的生产、分配和消费链条的形成和重组，这些链条将农村和城市空间编织成一个单一的领土。数据将从两个地区的档案来源收集。该项目将为我们提供新的知识，增加我们对区域发展过程及其城乡基础的理论理解。

U. of Colorado, Denver The research focuses upon 19th century industrialization and regional development in the United States. The primary objective is to determine the character and extent of rural-urban linkages and to document the mutual construction of city and countryside in two regional settings: eastern Iowa and northern Colorado. The research aims to trace the articulation of extraction and manufacturing within regional economies, highlight the centrality of resource-based industrialization to American economic growth and connect rural social and environmental change directly to the process of urban expansion. A comparative regional approach will be used to examine the development of rural -urban linkages. In addition a production based approach will be used to examine the formation and restructuring of commodity-specific chains of production, distribution and consumption that weave rural and urban space into a single territory. Data will be gathered from archival sources in both locales. The project will provide new knowledge and add to our theoretical understanding of the process of regional development and its urban and rural bases.