A company town is a place where practically all stores and housing are owned by the one company that is also the main employer. Company towns are often...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

Old Town Canoe Company is a historic maker of canoes in Old Town, Maine. The company had its beginnings in 1898, in buildings constructed in 1890 for a...

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

Like early model company town Port Sunlight, the workers of Boulder City were under strict monitoring: alcohol was prohibited in the town until 1969 and...

established and maintained the company town that grew around his distillery, exercising planning and control over every facet of the town, from public works to...

the Draper brothers, including the Hopedale Machine Company and Hopedale Furnace Company. The town was officially incorporated in 1886 when it separated...

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

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...

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...

November 2008, beginning a period of staff consultation. The company was established in the town just over sixty years prior, its factory at Pentrebach, Merthyr...