Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern

Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8229-4569-7
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

In order to nurture and build a competitive, successful modern city and region in which vital industries could thrive, civic leaders had to struggle with a complex topography, extractive energy resources, mass transportation demands, and the limitations of laissez faire capitalism. When the deleterious effects of massive industrialization threatened civic life and thereby economic success, civic leaders, and institutions searched for ways to mitigate the problems but also preserve private prerogatives. Although historians have frequently addressed the politics, private-public relationships and the social inequalities of labor, immigrants, race and gender, we focus on the needs of city-building, similarly attempting to balance economic imperatives and civic life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, Edward

Tarr, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Joel A. Tarr is the Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University where he has taught for over fifty years.  He is the recipient of CMU's Robert Doherty Prize for "substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education" (1992), the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society of the History of Technology (2008), the American Environmental History Association Distinguished Service Award (2015), and the Founders Award, National Council on Public History (2018).

Edward K. Muller is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a former chair of the Department of History, former director of the Urban Studies Program, and a Fulbright Research Scholar in New Zealand. He is founding member and former chair of the Board of Trustees of the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.