Pittsburgh Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District
by Frederick Law Olmsted
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About this eBook
- Author
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957
- Title
- Pittsburgh Main Thoroughfares and the Down Town District Improvements Necessary to Meet the City's Present and Future Needs
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- NA: Fine Arts: Architecture
- Subject
- Streets -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49972
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49972
- Release Date
- September 15, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PITTSBURGH
- 2.PITTSBURGH MAIN THOROUGHFARES AND THE DOWN TOWN DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY TO MEET THE CITY'S PRESENT AND FUTURE NEEDS A Report
- 3.Dedication
- 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 5.Letter of Transmissal
- 6.City Planning and the Cost of Living in Pittsburgh — PURPOSE AND PREPARATION OF THE REPORT
- 7.Introduction — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.PART I The Down Town District — The Main Arteries — Eastward Arteries and Their Improvement — A New Traffic Center — Sixth Avenue — Try Street Grade Crossing — Second Avenue Freight Yards — The "Hump Cut" — Grant Boulevard Extension — A Civic Center — Diamond Street Widening — Market Street Widening — The Market — The Water Front — The Improvement of The Point — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.PART II Main Thoroughfares — Width of Thoroughfares — Special Types of Thoroughfares — Widening Old Streets — Unified Procedure For City, County and Borough — SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS MAIN ARTERIES — Penn Avenue Artery — Forbes Street Artery — South Hills Artery — OUTLYING THOROUGHFARE IMPROVEMENTS — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.PART III Surveys and a City Plan — Pittsburgh's Need for Surveys — Objects To Be Secured — Technical Procedure — Maps — Management and Cost — Sample Maps — New York — Baltimore — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.PART IV Notes on Parks and Recreation Facilities — The Bellefield Improvement — Grant Boulevard — Steep Hillsides — GENERAL DISCUSSION OF PARKS — Neighborhood Parks — Rural Parks — SPECIAL PARK OPPORTUNITIES — FOOTNOTES:
- 12.PART V Special Reports — THE MARKET — THE HUMP CUT — THE CITY AND THE ALLEGHENY RIVER BRIDGES Recommendations for Bridge Heights and Pier Location to Meet the Various Transportation Needs of Pittsburgh — INTRODUCTION — RECOMMENDATIONS — FULL REPORT — RECOMMENDATIONS — APPENDIX I — APPENDIX II — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.INDEX
- 14.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
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