{"product_id":"beyond-rust-9780812223927","title":"Beyond Rust","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Rust\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world''s steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native Allen Dieterich-Ward provides a new model for a truly metropolitan history that integrates the urban core with its regional hinterland of satellite cities, white-collar suburbs, mill towns, and rural mining areas.\u003cbr\u003ePittsburgh reached its industrial heyday between 1880 and 1920, as vertically integrated industrial corporations forged a regional community in the mountainous Upper Ohio River Valley. Over subsequent decades, metropolitan population growth slowed as mining and manufacturing employment declined. Faced with economic and environmental disaster in the 1930s, Pittsburgh''s business elite and political leaders developed an ambitious program of pollution control and i\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeyond Rust\u003c\/i\u003e nails it: From building the all-consuming steel industry to its rebirth after decades of economic and environmental disintegration, Pittsburgh has always been in a cycle of transformation. Allen Dieterich-Ward's important book tracks the innovative methods-as well as the tragic missteps-of leaders who developed a mix of public-private partnerships, historic preservation, and collaboration with universities and foundations to create a model twenty-first-century city, which is still evolving.\" * Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto *\u003cbr\u003e\"The twentieth-century story of metropolitan Pittsburgh is fascinating and instructive, and nowhere is it told as completely as Dieterich-Ward has done here.\" * David Stradling, University of Cincinnati *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Rust\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen Dieterich-Ward captures the essence of major economic redevelopment strategies devised at the local level in response to the decline of basic industry after World War II. It is refreshing to read such clear and vivid prose about structural shifts in the political economy of American cities. This book will inform policy discussions about sprawl and regional development and make early twenty-first-century regional landscapes more legible.\" * Andrew Hurley, University of Missouri *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The City and Its Region\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE STEEL VALLEY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Building the Region\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Mines and Mills\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story\u003cbr\u003e PART II. A REGION OF CONTRASTS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. We're Appalachia, But We Don't Need to Be\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point\u003cbr\u003e PART III. POSTINDUSTRIAL PITTSBURGH\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Burbs of the 'Burgh\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Sources\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405704962391,"sku":"9780812223927","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223927.jpg?v=1730493340","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-rust-9780812223927","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}