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Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern : Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Muller, Edward K. (Autor), Tarr, Joel A. (Joel Arthur), 1934- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The industrial foundation. the interaction of natural and built environments in the Pittsburgh landscape / Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr
  • Pittsburgh's industrial corridors / Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr
  • Industrial suburbs and the growth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, 1870-1920 / Edward K. Muller
  • Pittsburgh's three rivers from industrial infrastructure to environmental assets / Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr with Timothy M. Collins. Transportation and the Rise of the Modern City
  • The omnibus, commuter railroad, and horsecar : walking city to networked city / Joel A. Tarr
  • The cable and electric streetcar networks / Joel A. Tarr
  • The automobile comes to Pittsburgh, 1910-1935 / Joel A. Tarr
  • Skybus : Pittsburgh's failed industrial targeting strategy of the 1960s / Edward K. Muller with Morton Coleman and David Houston
  • Energy, the environment, and the modern city. Pittsburgh as an energy capital : perspectives on coal and natural gas transitions and the environment / Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay
  • Boom and bust in Pittsburgh natural gas history : development, policy, and environmental effects, 1878-1920 / Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay
  • Searching for a sink for an industrial waste : iron-making fuels and the environment / Joel A. Tarr
  • The metabolism of the industrial city : the case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr
  • Planning the modern city. the Olmsteds in Pittsburgh : landscaping the private city / Edward K. Muller and John F. Bauman
  • "'In spite of the river' ought to be a Pittsburgh town-slogan" : riverfront planning in Pittsburgh, 1900s-1970s / Edward K. Muller
  • Downtown Pittsburgh : relentless change / Edward K. Muller
  • Preserving industrial heritage landscapes and community revitalization / Edward K. Muller.