Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue vii
4. Introduction. The City and Its Region 1
5. Part 1. The Steel Valley
6. Chapter 1. Building the Region 27
7. Chapter 2. Mines and Mills 46
8. Chapter 3. The Pittsburgh Story 67
9. Part II. A Region of Contrasts
10. Chapter 4. Live on the Hills and Work in the City 99
11. Chapter 5. We’re Appalachia, But We Don’t Need to Be 124
12. Chapter 6. The New Metropolis of the Plateau 149
13. Chapter 7. No Development Beyond This Point 172
14. Part III. Post-Industrial Pittsburgh
15. Chapter 8. Rust Belt and Roboburgh 205
16. Chapter 9. Burbs of the ’Burgh 231
17. Chapter 10. Rivers of Steel 255
18. Epilogue 283
19. Sources 291
20. Notes 295
21. Index 335
22. Acknowledgments 345