{"product_id":"making-industrial-pittsburgh-modern-environment-landscape-transportation-energy-and-planning-9780822945697","title":"Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning","description":"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 reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region's free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region's mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in \u003ci\u003eMaking Industrial Pittsburgh Modern \u003c\/i\u003eexamine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region's economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Muller,Joel Tarr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822945697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward K. Muller (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEdward K. Muller\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh and former director of the university's Urban Studies Program. He focuses on the history and geography of North American cities, particularly Pittsburgh. He is coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920; M\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eaking Industrial Pittsburgh: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBefore Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943;\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eAn Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel A. Tarr (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoel A. Tarr \u003c\/b\u003eis Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor Emeritus of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, the Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Environmental History, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTechnology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America\u003c\/i\u003e, coedited with Gabriel Dupuy; \u003ci\u003eThe Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eDevastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Horse in the City: Living Machines in the 19th Century\u003c\/i\u003e, with coauthor Clay McShane. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Pittsburgh Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45511836041331,"sku":"9780822945697","price":41.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1e2cfe1d-685d-4870-855f-8d3d8d273af9.jpg?v=1789645315","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/making-industrial-pittsburgh-modern-environment-landscape-transportation-energy-and-planning-9780822945697","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}