Laetitia Maison-Soulard is a researcher at the Heritage and Inventory service of Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region (France). After a Ph. D. in history of science, she developed the scientific and technical collections of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon. She is a specialist in industrial heritage and has recently published a book on the aerospace industry : L’industrie aérospatiale en Nouvelle-Aquitaine : Un siècle d’histoire et de Patrimoine (avec Vincent Frigant), Bordeaux : Le Festin, 2020. See also : “La conception de l’usine Dassault de Mérignac dans l’histoire architecturale aéronautique française, de l’entre-deux-guerres à la guerre froide” In Situ Revue des patrimoines 35 (2018) : Online since 12 September 2018.
For my co-author :
Stuart W. Leslie teaches the history of science, technology, and medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is probably best known for his studies of Cold War science in the US and in the developing world, including The Cold War and American Science. He has also published a number of recent articles on Southern California’s aerospace industry.
“Cold War Suburbs: Thinking the Unthinkable in Style” Southern California Quarterly 102, 1 (2020), 24-56.
“The Beach Boys: Cold War Science with a California Vibe” in Sandra O’Grady Kaji (ed.)
Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions (MIT Press, 2019), 131-177.
“’Suburban Warriors’: The Blue-Collar and Blue-Sky Communities of Southern California’s
Aerospace Industry” (with Layne Karafantis) Journal of Planning History 18,1 (February 2019), 3-26.
“Secret Spaces: Southern California’s Aerospace ‘Think Factories” in Mathew Aitchison
(ed.) The Architecture of Industry: Changing Paradigms in Industrial Building and
Planning (Ashgate, 2014): 59-85.
“Aerospaces: Southern California’s Architecture in a Cold War World” History and
Technology 29:4 (December 2013): 331-368.
“Spaces for the Space Age: William Pereira’s Aerospace Modernism” in Peter Westwick
(ed.) Blue-Sky Metropolis: Aerospace and Southern California (University of California
Press, 2012):127-158.
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Sessions in which Laetitia Maison-Soulard participates
Monday 29 August, 2022
Sessions in which Laetitia Maison-Soulard attends
Sunday 28 August, 2022
Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.
Monday 29 August, 2022
Si la vallée du canal de Lachine a été le berceau de l’industrialisation canadienne, la géographie industrielle métropolitaine ne s’y est pas confinée, peu s’en faut, Outre les grandes concentrations d’entreprises des quartiers centraux, elle est constituée des réseaux infrastructuraux, d’une douzaine de centrales hydroélectriques et des ensembles manufacturiers disséminés dans une quinzaine de petites villes aujourd’hui intégrées dans l’aire métropolitaine. La conférence proposera un surv...
Tuesday 30 August, 2022
This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial heritage as well as their impacts on communities and their territory. The analysis of museums, cultural spaces, itineraries and urban developments will be an opportunity to highlight the questions of identity, meaning, relevance and impact that animate all the actors of this heritage in transformation.
This session will allow us to explore, through nine international case studies, the different strategies for the development of industrial heritage as well as their impacts on communities and their territory. The analysis of museums, cultural spaces, itineraries and urban developments will be an opportunity to highlight the questions of identity, meaning, relevance and impact that animate all the actors of this heritage in transformation.
This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...
As a "continent” country, in which industrialization began as early as the 19th century, Canada has seen through deindustrialization and urban redevelopment, parts of this heritage have been either altered or destroyed. Yet, Canada still possesses a very significant industrial heritage. With Canada being a confederation, approaches to the protection and the safeguard of its industrial heritage differs throughout the provinces and territories of the country. The same is true of i...
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
This tour offers an excursion on a privatized deck of Montreal's bateau-mouche; a playful guided tour that takes in some of the city's industrial landmarks from the St. Lawrence River.The tour is priced to cover additional costs; the fee includes access to the bateau-mouche, the tour and a drink.Departure will be on foot from the conference venue; boarding is at 3:45 p.m. at the l...
Thursday 1 September, 2022
The South Central district is a former industrial and working-class neighbourhood with a rich and unique heritage. The visit will allow us to discover, among other things, the Macdonald Tobacco factory and the Raymond candy factory, the old workers' housing typical of the district, and the reuse of old buildings for cultural and community purposes. The activity will start at the Frontenac metro station and will end with a visit to the Écomusée du fier monde. Staff will be avail...
