Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Digest of the General Ordinances and Laws of the City of Pittsburgh to March 1, 1938
Author: Pittsburgh (Pa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
State and Local Government Special Studies
Author: State and Local Government Special Studies
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Checklist of Basic Municipal Documents
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern
Author: Edward K. MullerPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082298699X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region’s free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region’s mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region’s economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
City At The Point
Author: Samuel P. HaysPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822954477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how that knowledge relates to our broader understanding of the processes of urbanization and urbanism. This book is especially useful for undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental politics and policy making, or as a supplement for courses on public policy making generally.
Property Taxation 1941
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Property tax
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Energy Capitals
Author: Joseph A. PrattPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822979225
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Fossil fuels propelled industries and nations into the modern age and continue to powerfully influence economies and politics today. As Energy Capitals demonstrates, the discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels has proven to be a mixed blessing in many of the cities and regions where it has occurred. With case studies from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Africa, and Australia, this volume views a range of older and more recent energy capitals, contrasts their evolutions, and explores why some capitals were able to influence global trends in energy production and distribution while others failed to control even their own destinies. Chapters show how local and national politics, social structures, technological advantages, education systems, capital, infrastructure, labor force, supply and demand, and other factors have affected the ability of a region to develop and control its own fossil fuel reserves. The contributors also view the environmental impact of energy industries and demonstrate how, in the depletion of reserves or a shift to new energy sources, regions have or have not been able to recover economically. The cities of Tampico, Mexico, and Port Gentil, Gabon, have seen their oil deposits exploited by international companies with little or nothing to show in return and at a high cost environmentally. At the opposite extreme, Houston, Texas, has witnessed great economic gain from its oil, natural gas, and petrochemical industries. Its growth, however, has been tempered by the immense strain on infrastructure and the human transformation of the natural environment. In another scenario, Perth, Australia, Calgary, Alberta, and Stavanger, Norway have benefitted as the closest established cities with administrative and financial assets for energy production that was developed hundreds of miles away. Whether coal, oil, or natural gas, the essays offer important lessons learned over time and future considerations for the best ways to capture the benefits of energy development while limiting the cost to local populations and environments.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2094
Book Description