|9780822955665|The Post-Steel Era|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.| Roy Lubove| Regional| History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Political Science / General Political Science / Public…

|9780822956105|Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century|From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century.| Maurine Greenwald Margo Anderson| Regional| History / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Social Science / Social Classes

|9780822960935|Immigration and Industrialization, 1870–1940|A study of the immigrants who flocked to this Central Pennsylvania steel town in the late nineteenth century in search of employment. Comprised primarily of Southern blacks and Eastern European immigrants, they formed the lower class of this town. Analyzes the social structure and dominance of the white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant elite.| John Bodnar| Regional| History / General History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

|9780822956761|Envisioning Homestead| Photographs by Charlee Brodsky In 1986, with little warning, the USX Homestead Works closed. Thousands of workers who depended on steel to survive were left without work. A Town Without Steel looks at the people of Homestead as they reinvent their views of household and work and place in this world. The book details the modifications and revisions of domestic strategies in a public crisis. In some ways unique, and in some ways typical of American industrial towns, the plight of Homestead sheds light on social, cultural, and political developments of the late twentieth century. In this anthropological…

|9780822941118|The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950–1953| Initially commissioned to record the progress of Pittsburgh’s Renaissance I, these unforgettable black-and-white photographs of Roy Stryker’s Pittsburgh Photographic Library (PPL) capture the city in a state of flux. They reveal a union of opposites—the suited wonderment of the downtown businessman with the easy grace and competence of a shirtless construction worker balanced high over his head; the anonymity and isolation of planned housing with the belief in expansion and renewal; the energy and excitement of a city on the move with the traditions of the established elite; the juxtaposition between the growing optimism about…