| Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two: The Post-Steel Era Contributor(s): Lubove, Roy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822955660 ISBN-13: 9780822955665 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $36.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1996 Annotation: Written as a companion piece to Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh: Government, Business, and Environmental Change, this volume presents the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city from the 1970s up to the present, showing the united determination to attract high technology and 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Dewey: 307 |
| LCCN: 94-26215 |
| Series: Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.03" W x 8.98" (1.27 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Locality - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |