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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muller, Edward K., author.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

City planning.

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

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

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

Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 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:

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8229-8699-X