Roy Lubove, was professor of social welfare and history at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of several books, including: The Progressives and the Slums; Social Welfare in Transition: Selected English Documents, 1834Ð1909and Community Planning i
A useful, timely, and provocative contribution to the growing
literature on community planning in the twentieth century.--
"Journal of American History"
Readers will find Lubove's narrative fascinating to read not only
because he tells Pittsburgh's story well but because they will find
numerous events in it similar to those which occurred in their own
cities, but commonly without having such dramatic outcomes.--
"Annals of the American Academy of Political Science"
This slim volume should be of interest not only to historians but
also to community planners, social scientists, and non-academics
with a serious interest in cities. Its primary concern is not with
the growth of Pittsburgh, but with those who sought to change the
city's physical environment. . . . A useful, timely, and
provocative contribution to the growing literature on community
planning in the twentieth century.-- "Journal of American History"
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