Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Worker village of Crespi in 1927, Italy


Italy-26, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

"Crespi d'Adda" or "Worker village of Crespi" in Capriate San Gervasio in Lombardy is an outstanding example of the 19th and early 20th-century "company towns" built in Europe and North America by enlightened industrialists to meet the workers' needs. The site is still remarkably intact and is partly used for industrial purposes, although changing economic and social conditions now threaten its survival.

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