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Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward K. Muller
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298699X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern written by Edward K. Muller and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine 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.
Author : American Institute of Architects. Committee on Town Planning
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book City Planning Progress in the United States, 1917 written by American Institute of Architects. Committee on Town Planning and published by Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects. This book was released on 1917 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rami el Samahy
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580935230
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Imagining the Modern written by Rami el Samahy and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Modern explores Pittsburgh's ambitious modern architecture and urban renewal program that made it a gem of American postwar cities, and set the stage for its stature today. In the 1950s and '60s an ambitious program of urban revitalization transformed Pittsburgh and became a model for other American cities. Billed as the Pittsburgh Renaissance, this era of superlatives--the city claimed the tallest aluminum clad building, the world's largest retractable dome, the tallest steel structure--developed through visionary mayors and business leaders, powerful urban planning authorities, and architects and urban designers of international renown, including Frank Lloyd Wright, I.M. Pei, Mies van der Rohe, SOM, and Harrison & Abramovitz. These leaders, civic groups, and architects worked together to reconceive the city through local and federal initiatives that aimed to address the problems that confronted Pittsburgh's postwar development. Initiated as an award-winning exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2014, Imagining the Modern untangles this complicated relationship with modern architecture and planning through a history of Pittsburgh's major sites, protagonists, and voices of intervention. Through original documentation, photographs and drawings, as well as essays, analytical drawings, and interviews with participants, this book provides a nuanced view of this crucial moment in Pittsburgh's evolution. Addressing both positive and negative impacts of the era, Imagining the Modern examines what took place during the city's urban renewal era, what was gained and lost, and what these histories might suggest for the city's future.
Author : Blackader Library of Architecture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Books on Town Planning written by Blackader Library of Architecture and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 161858670X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)
Download or read book Historic Photos of Pittsburgh written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded on a triangle of land bounded by two mighty rivers, Pittsburgh has a long and storied chapter in American history. Currently the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh grew from a fur-trading post into Steeltown, U.S.A. Its immense steel factories symbolized America’s new forefront in the Industrial Age, even as the smoke and soot from those factories left the city polluted and filthy. After decades of change, Pittsburgh today is considered one of the most livable cities in America. Historic Photos of Pittsburgh examines the growth and change of this important American city. Nearly 200 photographs spanning two centuries have been collected and captioned with compelling text. Rich in historic detail, filled with images of the past, this book captures the power and might of a great industrial city and is a must-have for both historians and the general reader.
Author : Roy Lubove
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971641
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One written by Roy Lubove and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, 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.
Author : John F. Bauman
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822973057
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Before Renaissance written by John F. Bauman and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh.Planning emerged from the concerns of progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh.Over the years a melange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow, political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh's Frederick Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to Pittsburgh's prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward Muller recount the city's long tradition of public/private partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh's key role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form of a city for generations to come.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Architectural Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : McGill University
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book McGill University Publications written by McGill University and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book McGill University Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some nos. are reprints from: Annual report of the governors, principal and fellows.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph L. Scarpaci
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822971047
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pittsburgh and the Appalachians written by Joseph L. Scarpaci and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American cities reflect the challenges and promise of a twenty-first-century economy better than Pittsburgh and its surrounding region. Once a titan of the industrial age, Pittsburgh flourished from the benefits of its waterways, central location, and natural resources-bituminous coal to fire steel furnaces; salt and sand for glass making; gas, oil, and just enough ore to spark an early iron industry. Today, like many cities located in the manufacturing triangle that stretches from Boston to Duluth to St. Louis, Pittsburgh has made the transition to a service-based economy.Pittsburgh and the Appalachians presents a collection of eighteen essays that explore the advantages and disadvantages that Pittsburgh and its surrounding region face in the new global economy, from the perspectives of technology, natural resources, workforce, and geography. It offers an extensive examination of the processes and factors that have transformed much of industrial America during the past half-century, and shows how other cities can learn from the steps Pittsburgh has taken through redevelopment, green space acquisition, air and water quality improvement, cultural revival, and public-private partnerships to create a more livable, economically viable region for future populations.
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Hospital Transports written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War in America, the wounded soldiers were transported home by the sea. Executive Secretary Frederick Law Olmsted created an account of these days in his memoirs. In those times, women were actively drawn by the Sanitary Commission to help wounded soldiers by providing them homely comfort by cooking and cleaning or helping with writing letters. Yet, during the hard times of war, the roles of these women grew into nursing. They were actively helping doctors in providing complex surgeries and providing patients with other sorts of medical care.
Author : Neil Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691167532
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright written by Neil Levine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects, produced over more than fifty years, within their historical, cultural, and physical contexts, while relating them to the theory and practice of urbanism as it evolved over the twentieth century. Levine overturns the conventional view of Wright as an architect who deplored the city and whose urban vision was limited to a utopian plan for a network of agrarian communities he called Broadacre City. Rather, Levine reveals Wright’s larger, more varied, interesting, and complex urbanism, demonstrated across the span of his lengthy career. Beginning with Wright’s plans from the late 1890s through the early 1910s for reforming residential urban neighborhoods, mainly in Chicago, and continuing through projects from the 1920s through the 1950s for commercial, mixed-use, civic, and cultural centers for Chicago, Madison, Washington, Pittsburgh, and Baghdad, Levine demonstrates Wright’s place among the leading contributors to the creation of the modern city. Wright’s often spectacular designs are shown to be those of an innovative precursor and creative participant in the world of ideas that shaped the modern metropolis. Lavishly illustrated with drawings, plans, maps, and photographs, this book features the first extensive new photography of materials from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives. The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright will serve as one of the most important books on the architect for years to come.
Author : Theodora Kimball Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Municipal Accomplishment in City Planning and Published City Plan Reports in the United States written by Theodora Kimball Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
