Twentieth-century Pittsburgh. Volume 2, The post-steel era / Roy Lubove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubove, Roy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

City planning.

Urban renewal--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Urban renewal.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Politics and government.

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Elegy for a Bygone World; 2. Economic Development Strategy in the Post-Steel Era; 3. University, City, and Strategy 21; 4. A Second Renaissance; 5. Pittsburgh Neighborhoods: A System of Subsidized Empowerment; 6. Community Development Corporations; 7. Community Development Corporations, II; 8. Community Development in Allegheny County; 9. Amenities and Economic Development; 10. Historic Preservation and Industrial Heritage in the Pittsburgh Region; 11. Conclusion; Appendixes; Notes; Index.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2014).

Companion volume to: Twentieth-century Pittsburgh : government, business, and environmental change (New York : Wiley, 1969).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-391) and index.

ISBN:

9780822971672

0822971674

OCLC:

1444080122