Urban Textile Mills

Urban textile mills shaped European cities from the late 18th century. The decline of the textile sector in many of the original locations has meant that converting and repurposing these historic industrial complexes has become a new opportunity and important task in many European cities. The novel contribution of this book is that it examines not only the period of industrialization - the historic emergence of four urban mill types - but also focuses on recent processes of their repurposing, a ...