Looking for info/photos of massive industrial sprawl

[m-jean03]

I'm trying to find where some of the largest industrial parks in the world can be found. If anyone has a lead, even a recollection of some place that seems especially huge, I'd be grateful. Web links are loved. Books are loved. Thank you. M

[Screaming Lord Byron]

1. Korea has some serious ones. Pusan, perhaps?

The Hyundai plant?

[Whitacre D_WI]

2. Not the biggest, but for the sheer beauty...

...of a cathedral dedicated to Modernism, the fulfillment of what Henry Adams called "the age of the dynamo," you can do no better than the U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana.

[cosmicdot]

3. I wonder what's considered large today

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2002/09/09/newscolumn5.html

Arizona (Phoenix metro area) has zoned industrial parks ... the link talks of one in Fountain Hills ... 33 acres ... once a carrot farm ... rather boring, these CorporateScape States ...

[Richardo]

4. a small piece of the petrochem complex along the Houston Ship Channel

more at: http://www.stockyard.com/mainframe.htm

[no_arbusto]

5. Here's an old one from Pittsburgh.

This is a picture of the former J&L Steel and South Side Works. The sites are now very successful (and eco-friendly) office parks that were redeveloped under the Clinton/Gore brownfield programs.

On edit: Here's a link to the EPA's brownfields site which will likely have some pictures of sites prior to redevelopment.
http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/

[Maddy McCall]

6. Hands down, in the US the most industrialized area: the MS River Corridor

The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.




Read this:

"The 150 mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is the nation’s hotspot: it has the highest concentration of manufacturers, users and disposers of toxic chemicals in the entire United States. No area on the Mississippi or in the entire nation rivals this region for quantities and toxicity's of persistent and bioaccumulative chemical pollutants released to the environment.
Approximately 175 industrial and municipal facilities discharge wastewater into the river under the authority of state and federal permits. These discharges, coupled with the fact that the Mississippi River drains over forty percent of the continental United States, are of great concern to the 1.5 million Louisiana citizen's who depend upon the river for their drinking supply."

http://www.leanweb.org/news/EWsum2003page1.html

The heavily industrialized corridor is also known as Cancer Alley:

http://www.umass.edu/peri/pdfs/New%20Environ/Chapter%205%20b.%20Tipping%20the%20Scales%20of%20Power.pdf (PDF File, will take a while to open, but worth the time.)

Environmental racism along the corridor:

"African-Americans from the southern part of the United States are heading for Geneva in mid-April to appear before the UN Commission on Human Rights and seek international support in their struggle against 'environmental racism'.

The group, representing community and environmental organisations, are charging the United States with complicity in human rights abuses. They allege the government allows ethnic minority and low-income communities to be disproportionate targets for toxic waste dumps or polluting factories.

Delegates plan to testify before the Commission on the health problems and environmental damage their communities have suffered as a result of living near numerous toxic chemical facilities.

Most of the delegates are from communities that live along the Mississippi River in the state of Louisiana known infamously as 'Cancer Alley'. The industrial corridor stretching from North Baton Rouge south to New Orleans along the river hosts more than 140 oil refineries and chemical plants."

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/1882-cn.htm


To see more on The Mississippi River Corridor in Louisiana, see the Google results at:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2Bindustrial+%2BLouisiana+%2B%22Mississippi+River%22+%2B%22Baton+Rouge%22+%2Benvironmental

[bif]

7. Do a search here

http://www.images.google.com

[Snow]

8. Germany, along the Rhone?

Maybe nearby parts of Belgium/Netherlands?

[Richardo]

9. A photo of the port of Rotterdam...

[m-jean03]

10. Hey, all right...

You've all been very helpful!