Pittsburgh a New Portrait

by Franklin Toker

Book Overview

From its founding in 1758, Pittsburgh has experienced several epic transformations. It began its existence as a fortress, on a site originally selected by George Washington. A hundred years later, and well into our own time, no other American city was as intensively industrialized, only to be later consigned to "rustbelt" status. Remade as a thriving twenty-first-century city and an international center for science, medicine, biotechnology, and financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822943719
• ISBN13: 9780822943716
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 10.4"