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Nature’s Entrepot

|9780822966500|Philadelphia’s Urban Sphere and Its Environmental Thresholds| In Nature’s Entrepot, the contributors view the planning, expansion, and sustainability of the urban environment of Philadelphia from its inception to the present….

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Pittsburgh

…city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial services, Pittsburgh is now routinely acclaimed as one of the most promising and livable of America’s cities. Franklin Toker…

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Staging Buenos Aires

…industrialization resulted in the visible decline of patriarchal social structures, made most visible in the urban sphere.| Kristen L. McCleary| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / General…

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Dont Call Me Boss

…editors of Fortune magazine name Pittsburgh as one of the eight best administered cities in America.DonÆt Call Me Boss examines the lengthy career of this remarkable politician. Using over one…

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A Mighty Capital under Threat

…shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Bill Luckin Peter Thorsheim| History of the Urban Environment| Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning…

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