Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World

by John Joe Schlichtman

Book Overview

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world

High Point, North Carolina, is known as the "Furniture Capital of the World." Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off to low-wage countries. Yet as manufacturing left, the city tightened its hold on a biannual global exposition that serves as the world's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816699313
• ISBN13: 9780816699315
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"