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Before Renaissance - Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (Paperback)
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Before Renaissance - Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (Paperback)
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Before Renaissance examines a half-century epoch during which
planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue
about the meaning of planning and its application for improving
life in Pittsburgh. Planning emerged from the concerns of
progressive reformers and businessmen over the social and physical
problems of the city. In the Steel City enlightened planners such
as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Frederick Bigger pioneered the
practical approach to reordering the chaotic urban-industrial
landscape. In the face of obstacles that included the embedded
tradition of privatism, rugged topography, inherited built
environment, and chronic political fragmentation, they established
a tradition of modern planning in Pittsburgh. Over the years a
m+lange of other distinguished local and national figures joined in
the planning dialogue, among them the park founder Edward Bigelow,
political bosses Christopher Magee and William Flinn, mayors George
Guthrie and William Magee, industrialists Andrew Carnegie and
Howard Heinz, financier Richard King Mellon, and planning
luminaries Charles Mulford Robinson, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.,
Harland Bartholomew, Robert Moses, and Pittsburgh's Frederick
Bigger. The famed alliance of Richard King Mellon and Mayor David
Lawrence, which heralded the Renaissance, owed a great debt to
Pittsburgh's prior planning experience. John Bauman and Edward
Muller recount the city's long tradition of public/private
partnerships as an important factor in the pursuit of orderly and
stable urban growth. Before Renaissance provides insights into the
major themes, benchmarks, successes, and limitations that marked
the formative days of urban planning. It defines Pittsburgh's key
role in the vanguard of the national movement and reveals the
individuals and processes that impacted the physical shape and form
of a city for generations to come.
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