Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern : Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning / edited by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muller, Edward K., editor.

Tarr, Joel A. (Joel Arthur), 1934- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

City planning.

History.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Physical Description:

viii, 494 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

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.

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Introduction; I. The Industrial Foundation; 1. The Interaction of Natural and Built Environments in the Pittsburgh Landscape; 2. Pittsburgh's Industrial Corridors; 3. Industrial Suburbs and the Growth of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920; 4. Pittsburgh's Three Rivers; II. Transportation and the Rise of the Modern City; 5. The Omnibus, Commuter Railroad, and Horsecar; 6. The Cable and Electric Streetcar Networks; 7. The Automobile Comes to Pittsburgh, 1910-1935; 8. Skybus; III. Energy, the Environment, and the Modern City; 9. Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital

10. Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History11. Searching for a Sink for an Industrial Waste Iron-Making Fuels and the Environment; 12. The Metabolism of the Industrial City; IV. Planning the Modern City; 13. The Olmsteds in Pittsburgh; 14. "'In spite of the river' ought to be a Pittsburgh town-slogan"; 15. Downtown Pittsburgh; 16. Preserving Industrial Heritage Landscapes and Community Revitalization; List of Additional Works on Pittsburgh by Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

082294569X

9780822945697

OCLC:

1083465131