TY  - GEN
T1  - Making industrial Pittsburgh modern : environment, landscape, transportation, energy & planning
A1  - Muller, Edward K.
A2  - Muller, Edward K.
A2  - Tarr, Joel A. (Joel Arthur), 1934-
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1124854522
AB  - 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.
CN  - HT168.P48
SN  - 9780822986997
SN  - 082298699X
SN  - 9780822945697
SN  - 082294569X
KW  - City planning : Pennsylvania : Pittsburgh : History.
KW  - Pittsburgh (Pa.) : Economic conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Pittsburgh (Pa.) : Economic conditions : 20th century.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - City planning
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Pennsylvania : Pittsburgh
KW  - 1800-1999
KW  - History
ER  -