Making industrial Pittsburgh modern : Environment, landscape, transportation, and planning / Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr

Additional Titles: Environment, landscape, transportation, and planning
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
Copyright Date: ©2019.
Physical Description: viii, 494 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Muller, Edward K. and Tarr, Joel A. (Joel Arthur), 1934-

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The interaction of natural and built environments in the Pittsburgh landscape -- Pittsburgh's industrial corridors -- Industrial suburbs and the growth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920 - Pittsburgh's Three Rivers -- The omnibus, commuter railroad, and horsecar -- The cable and electric streetcar networks -- The automobile comes to Pittsburgh, 1910-1935 -- Skybus -- Pittsburgh as an energy capital -- Boom and bust in Pittsburgh natural gas history -- Searching for a sink for an industrial waste iron-making fuels and the environment -- The metabolism of the industrial city -- The Olmsteds in Pittsburgh -- "'In spite of the river' ought to be a Pittsburgh town-slogan" -- Downtown Pittsburgh -- Preserving industrial heritage landscapes and community revitalization.

Summary

Pittsburgh's explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region's challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region's free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region's mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region's economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.

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082294569X hardcover acid-free paper
9780822945697 hardcover acid-free paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Paterno Libraries Endowment

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