Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, Business, and Environmental Change

by Roy Lubove

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822955511
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	02/01/1996
Series:	Regional , #1
Edition description:	1
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Roy Lubove, was professor of social welfare and history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of several books, including: The Progressives and the Slums; Social Welfare in Transition: Selected English Documents, 1834—1909and Community Planning in the 1920s: The Contribution of the Regional Planning Association of America.

Editorial Reviews

A useful, timely, and provocative contribution to the growing literature on community planning in the twentieth century.

Journal of American History

Readers will find Lubove's narrative fascinating to read not only because he tells Pittsburgh's story well but because they will find numerous events in it similar to those which occurred in their own cities, but commonly without having such dramatic outcomes.

Annals of the American Academy of Political Science

"Readers will find Lubove's narrative fascinating to read not only because he tells Pittsburgh's story well but because they will find numerous events in it similar to those which occurred in their own cities, but commonly without having such dramatic outcomes."
—Annals of the American Academy of Political Science

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