Chicago made: factory networks in the industrial metropolis: Robert Lewis
本书探讨芝加哥制造商如何通过工厂网络塑造郊区工业区，形成大都市区内的整合经济，对理解美国工业区和城市增长过程有重要贡献。
Chicago Made intersects the literatures on industrial districts and urban growth processes and has spill-over effects into urban and economic geography, and urban studies. Where William Cronon largely drove by Chicago's ‘forest of smokestacks’ in order to situate Nature's Metropolis in relation to its vast hinterland, and where economic geographers have outlined the role investments in suburban residential property play in stimulating consumption, Robert Lewis gets under the perpetual cloud hanging over Chicago's suburban industry. He shows how manufacturers and their allies made places and formed an integrated economy within the metropolitan region. Well-written, concise, packed with elegant summaries of detailed information and innovatively drawing upon bankruptcy records, Chicago Made is a masterful contribution to our understanding of American industrial districts and urban growth processes. This is no easy achievement. Economic geographers have sophisticated frameworks to understand the clustering of production and innovation. Historical industrial districts, alternatives to mass production and the role of suburbanization in capitalist processes are each the subject of considerable research. Chicago Made is innovative and informative, not least because of its attention to all of these bodies of work.