ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the class dimensions of place identity are examined in the context of deindustrialised and regenerated work sites and communities in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, changes in post-industrial landscapes have provoked questions not only about ruination, but also about multiple forms of erasure. In 2015, the Detroit Historical Museum began transcribing and conducting interviews as part of the Detroit 1967 Oral and Written History Project. Urban developers have been quick to reorient working-class landscapes towards entirely new configurations of capital and social relationships as the result of the disintegration of the city’s industrial base. As public historians, the environmental dimension of deindustrialisation is difficult to represent. On its face, industrial work and the landscapes that it produces have clearly had a significant negative impact on both human health and the environment.
