City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh

by Samuel P. Hays (Editor)

An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change.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.

Genres: History

473 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

A leading scholar of American environmental history, Samuel Pfrimmer Hays was Distinguished Service Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. A 1948 graduate of Swarthmore College, Hays earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1953 and taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Iowa before moving to Pitt in 1960, where he taught until his retirement in 1990.

Reviews

[Sabrina Spiher]

"City at the Point: Essays on the Social History of Pittsburgh, edited by Samuel P. Hays, is a book to be taken out of the library if any one of its subjects interests you, and a book to be bought if your interest lies in the totality of Pittsburgh's history. I say that you should buy it if you want to read all of it because otherwise you'd probably incur a library fine anyway; at 436 dense, academic pages, it took a while to get through, and I am interested in the totality of Pittsburgh's history ..."

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