The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook

Author : Ben Gwin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 195336814X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook written by Ben Gwin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, a probing look at the Steel City's diverse locales. Pittsburgh is made up of more than ninety different neighborhoods. And while The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook

Author : Ben Gwin
Publisher : Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks
ISBN 13 : 9781948742719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook written by Ben Gwin and published by Belt Neighborhood Guidebooks. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth in Belt's series of idiosyncratic city guides. Pittsburgh is made up of more than ninety different neighborhoods, and while The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook doesn't have room for all of them, it does its best, exploring the contrasts that exist between and within neighborhoods and how they play out in personal narratives. In these pages you'll find essays about old Lawrenceville, nonfiction set in the Mon Valley, Wilkinsburg, and East Pittsburgh, and work by lifetime residents, transplants and transients. The newest installment in Belt's Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook is a book for anyone who thinks they know Pittsburgh, or just wishes they did.

Author : Quentin R. Skrabec
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875867979
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Richest Neighborhood written by Quentin R. Skrabec and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The residents of Pittsburgh's East End controlled as much a 40% of America's assets at the turn of the last century. Mail was delivered seven times a day to keep America's greatest capitalists in touch with their factories, banks, and markets. The neighborhood had its own private station of the Pennsylvania Railroad with a daily non-stop express to New York's financial district. Many of the world's most powerful men - princes, artists, politicians, scientists, and American Presidents such as William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, came to visit the hard-working and high-flying captains of industry. Two major corporations, Standard Oil and ALCOA Aluminum were formed in East End homes. It was the first neighborhood to adopt the telephone with direct lines from the homes to the biggest banks in Pittsburgh, which at the time was America's fifth largest city. The story of this neighborhood is a story of America at its greatest point of wealth and includes rags-to-riches stories, political corruption, scandals, and greed. The history of this unique piece of American geography makes for enjoyable reading that will satisfy a large cross section of readers.

Author : Shannon Daly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493045717
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh Food Crawls written by Shannon Daly and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh Food Crawlsis an exciting culinary tour through Steel City. Discover hidden gems and long-standing institutions. Each crawl is the complete recipe for a great night out, the perfect tourist day, a new way to experience your own city, or simply food porn to enjoy from home. Put on your walking shoes and your stretchy pants, and dig into Pittsburgh one dish at a time.

Author : Donald Doherty
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557014
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pittsburgh's Shadyside written by Donald Doherty and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suburb of Shadyside was established in the middle of farmland during the late 1860s when the Shadyside train station opened. As Pittsburgh grew into the worldas preeminent industrial city, Shadyside became the home of many influential men of the industrial age. Rapid change struck Shadyside early in the 20th century when commerce sprouted up around the perimeter of the neighborhood to cater to the residentsa demand for luxury goods and services. Within another decade industry moved in, especially close to the train tracks, and in 1915, the Ford Motor Company assembly plant opened in Shadyside. Through more than 200 vintage photographs, Pittsburghas Shadyside chronicles the personalities, places, institutions, and events that transformed a farming community into an affluent industrial-age suburb and diverse city neighborhood.

Author : Ray Suarez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684834022
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Neighborhood written by Ray Suarez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-05-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of American cities since 1950, looking at the issue of white flight, and discussing its impact on schools, housing, crime, and jobs.

Author : The Staff of Belt Magazine
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0996836764
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook written by The Staff of Belt Magazine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for those who want to understand what radiates away from Terminal Tower, and who understand that as lovely as the city often is, it can sometimes be brutal, too. You will read about places no longer here, such as the Little Italy Historical Museum and League Park, as well as increasingly popular areas, such as North Collinwood and Asiatown. You will learn about Cleveland Heights s natural history, Mount Pleasant back in the day, and Opportunity Corridors missed. The writers tell you stories about starting a business in Ohio City, marketing Larchmere, first time home buying in Detroit Shoreway, self-loathing in South Euclid, troubling developments in Tremont, closed schools in Lee-Miles, and a vineyard in Hough. Bound together, they conjure a Cleveland as complex as are its residents.

Author : Squirrel Hill Historical Society
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781467136259
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squirrel Hill written by Squirrel Hill Historical Society and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood began on the frontier of western Pennsylvania 250 years ago and developed into a vibrant urban community. Early settler John Turner, half brother of renegade Simon Girty, survived capture by Native Americans and experienced firsthand the change from dangerous wilderness to established farming community. Wealthy landowners Henry Clay Frick and Mary Schenley bestowed Squirrel Hill its grand public parks. Hyman Little, Herman Kamin and countless others moved to the hill and made it Pittsburgh's premier Jewish community, with a tightknit cluster of synagogues, temples and a thriving business district. The Squirrel Hill Historical Society and editor Helen Wilson explore the fascinating history of one of Pittsburgh's historic neighborhoods.

Author : Mark Collins
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980088
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mister Rogers Neighborhood written by Mark Collins and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1997-09-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Bob Garfield. Afterword by Marian Wright Edelman Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's The Children's Corner, which became part of the the Saturday morning lineup on NBC in 1955 and 1956. It was after Fred Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963, with a special charge of serving children and their families through television, that he developed what became the award-winning PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC, and in 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's The Children's Corner, which became part of the the Saturday morning lineup on NBC in 1955 and 1956. It was after Fred Rogers was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963, with a special charge of serving children and their families through television, that he developed what became the award-winning PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Author : Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1613320205
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Root Shock written by Mindy Thompson Fullilove and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.