Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era
This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.
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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era
This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.
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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era

by Roy Lubove
Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era

Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era

by Roy Lubove

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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822955665
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 02/22/1996
Series: Regional , #2
Edition description: 1
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(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.
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