|9780822937876|A new edition of this long unavailable classic reproduces photographic prints made from original negatives and features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton.Before the 1936 publication of The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, the architectual heritage of a region prominent in the history of early America had been almost totally neglected. Based on a four-year survey conducted by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Istitute of Architects, Charles Morse Stotz’s book provides the definitive description and analysis of structures ranging from log houses to colonial and Georgian structures to examples of the pre-Civil War Gothic…

|9780822955511|Government, Business, and Environmental Change|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.| Roy Lubove| Regional| History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

|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)