| Before Renaissance | John Bauman | Examines a half-century epoch when planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh. Defines Pittsburgh’s key role in the national urban planning movement. |
| City at the Point | Samuel Hays | An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change.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.
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| Pittsburgh Surveyed | Maurine Greenwald | From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Surveyed examines the accuracy and the impact of the influential Pittsburgh Survey, emphasizing its role in the social reform movement of the early twentieth century. |
| Politics of Place | Gregory Crowley | Using five case studies of redevelopment in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gregory Crowley addresses important issues in urban redevelopment and provides a framework through which to view future contention. |
| Shaping of the Point | Robert C. Alberts | Pittsburgh's post-World War II “Renaissance” was immediately recognized as a landmark of city planning. Alberts profiles the dramatic redevelopment of the thirty-six acre park that was the centerpiece of the city's rebirth.
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| Singing the City | Laurie Graham | A celebration of Pittsburgh’s industrial landscape and an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America. A unique addition to the literature on the importance of place. |
| Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume One | Roy Lubove | Now back in print, this is a pioneering analysis of an elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal, that has become the classic model for all such redevelopment projects. |
| Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two | Roy Lubove | This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed united determination to attract high technology companies in an attempt to reverse the economic fallout from the decline of the local steel industry. Lubove also separates the successes from the failures, the good intentions from the actual results. |
