But it is also a cultural landscape with some of the wacky buildings and collections of Waldo E. Sexton, the folk architect and Florida nurseryman who teamed up with Arthur G. McKee, a Cleveland industrialist, to develop the land in the 1920's.
After World War II, Bayer continued typeface innovations while helping design aficionado and industrialist Walter Paepcke to develop Aspen, Colo., as a resort and think tank location with the establishment of the Aspen Institute (1950).
But the strongest opposition came from immigrant Jews, who felt that the plan had been devised, at the behest of industrialists, to train children to be factory workers rather than to develop their interests and abilities.
In the West, manufacturing has been hollowing out for decades as industrialists migrate to developing countries, where labor, equipment and materials are cheaper.
The Salone del Mobile, which opens Tuesday at the Rho fairground and closes Sunday, is rooted in the expansion of Italian manufacturing during la dolce vita era of the 1950s and 1960s, when visionary industrialists collaborated with talented designers to develop technically innovative products in an elegant, modern style.
Located at the interface between fundamental research and clinical research the CIT of Bordeaux associates the industrialists, the University Hospital environment in order to develop biomedical research in the field of biomaterials.
"It will be the marketing geniuses versus the technology mavens," joked Sam Brickle, the 62-year-old Rhode Island industrialist who bought the rights from Micell to develop the Hangers concept in New England.
Together, these three urban economic advantages allow Bangalore industrialists, Beirut Islamists, Berkeley activists and Belgrade human traffickers to develop the infrastructures they need to pursue their strategies across far-flung networks of cities: in other words, to join in the building of the global city.
In 1918 Lord Leverhulme, a British industrialist, bought estates on the island and planned, without success, to develop the fishing on more modern lines.
In particular the engineering community reacted angrily to the downgrading of the Engineering Diploma which was developed by leading academics and industrialists to provide a robust alternative to traditional academic qualifications.
