About the Author

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

Reviews

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"