Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning

by Joel A. Tarr and Edward K. Muller

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082294569X
• ISBN13: 9780822945697
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"