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Beyond Rust : Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America / Allen Dieterich-Ward.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and Culture in Modern AmericaPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) : 17 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812247671
  • 9780812292022
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction. The City and Its Region -- Part 1. The Steel Valley -- Chapter 1. Building the Region -- Chapter 2. Mines and Mills -- Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story -- Part II. A Region of Contrasts -- Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City -- Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be -- Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau -- Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point -- Part III. Post-Industrial Pittsburgh -- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh -- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh -- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native Allen Dieterich-Ward provides a new model for a truly metropolitan history that integrates the urban core with its regional hinterland of satellite cities, white-collar suburbs, mill towns, and rural mining areas.Pittsburgh reached its industrial heyday between 1880 and 1920, as vertically integrated industrial corporations forged a regional community in the mountainous Upper Ohio River Valley. Over subsequent decades, metropolitan population growth slowed as mining and manufacturing employment declined. Faced with economic and environmental disaster in the 1930s, Pittsburgh's business elite and political leaders developed an ambitious program of pollution control and infrastructure development. The public-private partnership behind the "Pittsburgh Renaissance," as advocates called it, pursued nothing less than the selective erasure of the existing social and physical environment in favor of a modernist, functionally divided landscape: a goal that was widely copied by other aging cities and one that has important ramifications for the broader national story. Ultimately, the Renaissance vision of downtown skyscrapers, sleek suburban research campuses, and bucolic regional parks resulted in an uneven transformation that tore the urban fabric while leaving deindustrializing river valleys and impoverished coal towns isolated from areas of postwar growth.Beyond Rust is among the first books of its kind to continue past the collapse of American manufacturing in the 1980s by exploring the diverse ways residents of an iconic industrial region sought places for themselves within a new economic order.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction. The City and Its Region -- Part 1. The Steel Valley -- Chapter 1. Building the Region -- Chapter 2. Mines and Mills -- Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story -- Part II. A Region of Contrasts -- Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City -- Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be -- Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau -- Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point -- Part III. Post-Industrial Pittsburgh -- Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh -- Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh -- Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native Allen Dieterich-Ward provides a new model for a truly metropolitan history that integrates the urban core with its regional hinterland of satellite cities, white-collar suburbs, mill towns, and rural mining areas.Pittsburgh reached its industrial heyday between 1880 and 1920, as vertically integrated industrial corporations forged a regional community in the mountainous Upper Ohio River Valley. Over subsequent decades, metropolitan population growth slowed as mining and manufacturing employment declined. Faced with economic and environmental disaster in the 1930s, Pittsburgh's business elite and political leaders developed an ambitious program of pollution control and infrastructure development. The public-private partnership behind the "Pittsburgh Renaissance," as advocates called it, pursued nothing less than the selective erasure of the existing social and physical environment in favor of a modernist, functionally divided landscape: a goal that was widely copied by other aging cities and one that has important ramifications for the broader national story. Ultimately, the Renaissance vision of downtown skyscrapers, sleek suburban research campuses, and bucolic regional parks resulted in an uneven transformation that tore the urban fabric while leaving deindustrializing river valleys and impoverished coal towns isolated from areas of postwar growth.Beyond Rust is among the first books of its kind to continue past the collapse of American manufacturing in the 1980s by exploring the diverse ways residents of an iconic industrial region sought places for themselves within a new economic order.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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