Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One

Government, Business, and Environmental Change

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

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.

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Roy Lubove

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, 1834Ð1909and Community Planning in the 1920s: The Contribution of the Regional Planning Association of America.

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Roy Lubove