company town is a place where all or most of the stores and housing in the town are owned by the same company that is also the main employer. Company...

This is a list of company towns. See the category Company towns for an unannotated list of articles. See the category Socialist planned cities for an...

production workers initially lived in a planned worker community, known as a company town, named Pullman, Chicago. Pullman developed the sleeping car, which carried...

list of company towns in the United States. Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See the...

Company Town is an environmental documentary film by Natalie Kottke-Masocco and Erica Sardarian about alleged pollution by a Georgia-Pacific plant in Crossett...

ghost town by the following year. More broadly across Australia, there has been a shift towards fly-in fly-out arrangements over building a company town, in...

A college town or university town is a community (often a separate town or city, but in some cases a town/city neighborhood or a district) that is dominated...

town in a remote area where virtually everyone is employed by one firm, such as a coal mine. In a company town, the housing is owned by the company but...

and constructed in the 1960s. Company towns During the construction of the Suez Canal in the 1860s, and after, new towns were planned and built to serve...

the coal company or its designated representative". As such, coal scrip could only be used at the specific locality or coal town of the company named. Because...

He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town in Chicago for the workers who manufactured it. This ultimately led to...

existed in tandem with company towns (communities owned by an employer for the purpose of housing workers), which usually contained company stores. However,...

and mining towns of West Virginia and Central Pennsylvania. Steel was first made at Sparrows Point in 1889 by the Maryland Steel Company, a subsidiary...

Sandak, and Toughees. The T. & A. Baťa Shoe Company was founded on 21 September 1894 in the Moravian town of Zlín, Austria-Hungary (today in the Czech...

This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada. True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial...

destroyed the town on 8 September 1943, but rebuilding took place after the Second World War. Historically, Longyearbyen was a company town, but most mining...

projects, in 1962 Rouse brought on Bill Finley, who built a planned "company town", Ravenswood, West Virginia, was a former planner with the National Capital...

town Company town Developed environments Fire sign (address) List of towns Location (geography) Megalopolis (city type) Proto-city Town charter Town Hall...

(SMECO) Town of Thurmont Municipal Light Company Town of Williamsport Utilities Ashburnham Municipal Light Belmont Municipal Light Berkshire Company (WMECO)...

The Suez Company or Suez Canal Company, full initial name Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez (Universal Company of the Maritime Canal of...

England in the early to mid-19th century. Mill towns, sometimes planned, built and owned as a company town, grew in the shadow of the industries. The region...

existed in massive log storage and milling operations at the historic company town of Scotia, California, located adjacent to US 101 along the Eel River...

from Russian моногород, monogorod) is a city/town whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company. This means that most employment (except for...

began in Wittenoom Gorge. In 1947, a company town was built and, during the 1950s, it was the Pilbara's largest town. The peak population, as recorded by...

The Town Life is an Italian microcar. The vehicle was created by the Tonino Lamborghini Group, a company run by the son of Ferruccio Lamborghini. There...

painting, Cut the Line. The company went private in 1987 and was sold to Continental Engineering Corporation in 1988. The town of Ambridge, Pennsylvania...

Garden Cities Alliance as a community interest company. Its aim is to be complementary to groups like the Town and Country Planning Association and it has...

for a civil penalty of $200,000. According to the 2016 documentary, Company Town, improper waste disposal by a Georgia-Pacific mill in Crossett, Arkansas...

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process...

some cases, a railroad town would be started by the railroad, often using a separate town or land company, even when another town already existed nearby...