Making industrial Pittsburgh modern Environment, landscape, transportation, and planning
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...
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Pittsburgh, Pa.
University of Pittsburgh Press
[2019]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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