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Joel Tarr - Renewal, Regression, and Revival, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Renewal, Regression, and Revival

Currents of Change in the Pittsburgh Environment

Av Joel Tarr

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Sitting at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers where they join to flow into the Ohio, the city of Pittsburgh has been shaped by its material environment—the rocky, grimy, watery base on which it stands. It has also been shaped by industrial activity, as the city has cycled through growth and expansion, deindustrialization, and renewal. Today, many former industrial sites have been replaced by research, shopping, and recreation—but change is not always consistent, and whether Pittsburgh has entirely moved to a sustainable future remains to be seen. Renewal, Regression, and Revival is an environmental history of this iconic American city by one of the foremost scholars in the field, Joel A. Tarr. Chapters in this volume not only expand on themes first addressed in Tarr’s landmark Devastation and Renewal but venture into new and vital topics for understanding the role of the environment in urban development. Over seven deftly argued essays, Tarr and other expert contributors reflect on environmental hazards such as landslides, air pollution, and gas extraction, and explore the growth of a political culture that helped turn a declining Rust Belt city into a burgeoning green metropolis.
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Joel A. Tarr is Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor Emeritus of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology and both the Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Environmental History. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America, with Gabriel Dupuy; The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective; Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region; and The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the 19th Century, with Clay McShane.

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In this collection, Joel A. Tarr and his collaborators illustrate the many ways environmental factors have made Pittsburgh a singular city. But these essays tell us more than just how Pittsburghers made and remade their city along rivers winding through steep hillsides in an energy-rich environment. The many lessons contained in Renewal, Regression, and Revival will be instructive to scholars investigating any city.

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