review in brief: Capital's utopia: Vandergrift Pennsylvania. 1855—1916. By Anne E. Mosher. Baltimore, MD. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. xviii + 249 pp. $45.00 cloth. ISBN 0 8018 7381 9

Rather, City Publics makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about how difference can be productively negotiated, stressing the importance of symbolic, everyday and marginal spaces for the social and political life of the city. Built by the Apollo Iron and Steel Company in the mid-1890s and eventually incorporated into J.P. Morgans US Steel conglomerate, Vandergrift was one of the earliest vertically integrated steel mill towns created using comprehensive infrastructure and land-use planning ideals. Under the leadership of George McMurtry, Apollo Iron and Steel hired the design rm of Olmstead, Olmstead & Eliot to design a town around the concepts of environmental determinism, home ownership, and self-help, with the goal of creating a steelworkers paradise.