Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region

by Joel A. Tarr

Book Overview

Every city has an environmental story, perhaps none so dramatic as Pittsburgh's. Founded in a river valley blessed with enormous resources-three strong waterways, abundant forests, rich seams of coal-the city experienced a century of exploitation and industrialization that degraded and obscured the natural environment to a horrific degree. Pittsburgh came to be known as "the Smoky City," or, as James Parton famously declared in 1866, "hell with the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958929
• ISBN13: 9780822958925
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"