Twentieth Century Pittsburgh Volume 1: Government, Business, and Environmental Change (Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh)

Roy Lubove's __Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh__ is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.

Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers.                         

Contents 6 Preface 7 One - The Balance of Life and Work 14 Two - The Reform Process -- The Voluntary Sector 33 Three - The Reform Process -- The Public Sector 54 Four - Housing: The Gordian Knot 72 Five - Planning: Form Without Substance 100 Six - The Pittsburgh Renaissance: An Experiment in Public Paternalism 119 Seven - The Social Dimensions of the Renaissance 155 Illustration Credits 190 Index 192 List of Maps 6 Pittsburgh 9 The Golden Triangle 138 First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as'hell with the lid off.'The book continues to be invaluable to anyone interested in the fate of America's beleaguered metropolitan and industrial centers. This text presents the major decisions, events, programmes and personalities that have transformed the US city of Pittsburgh in the dynamic years of the city's second renaissance, which began in 1977. Now back in print, this is a pioneering analysis of an elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal, that has become the classic model for all such redevelopment projects. Vol. 1. Government, business, and environmental change v. 2. The post-steel era.