Main entry:

Toker, Franklin, author.

Title & Author:

Pittsburgh : a new portrait / Franklin Toker.

Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,
©2009.

Description:

xv, 512 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Based on: Pittsburgh : an urban portrait. 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-502) and index.
Introduction: Pittsburgh from the ground up -- Downtown: A golden triangle -- The North side: A rival city -- The South side: Real Pittsburgh -- Penn Avenue: Uphill and upscale -- Oakland: The nerve center of education and culture -- The river towns: Valleys of industry -- The Pittsburgh periphery: Suburbia, history, and renewal.

Summary:

From its founding in 1758, Pittsburgh has experienced several epic transformations. It began as a fortress on a site originally selected by George Washington. A hundred years later, no other American city was as intensively industrialized. Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century 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. This book describes this urban reinvention by focusing on what makes Pittsburgh so resilient and appealing : its strong neighborhoods and their surprisingly rich architectural history. Pittsburgh{u2019}s many urban communities offer every imaginable style of structure, from Victorian to Bauhaus, Gothic to Art Deco, and from Industrial to Green. These ordinary homes expressed the aspirations of people who came from around the world to settle in Pittsburgh, while they built the city itself into an economic powerhouse. With the wealth generated by this everyday work, local captains of industry could build their own monumental additions to Pittsburgh's urban landscape, including two of America's greatest buildings : H. H. Richardson's Allegheny Courthouse and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater.

ISBN:

9780822943716 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0822943719 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Neighborhoods Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.
Historic buildings Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.
Architecture Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.
Architecture Pennsylvanie Pittsburgh.
Architecture
Buildings
Historic buildings
Neighborhoods
Travel
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Description and travel.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Tours.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh

Form/genre:

Tours

Holdings:

Location: Library main 264472
Call No.: BIB 195925
Status: Available