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Title: The Spectator and the Topographical City (Regional)
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0822942887
ISBN 13: 9780822942887
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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The Spectator and the Topographical City examines Pittsburgh's built environment as it relates to the city's unique topography. Martin Aurand explores the conditions present in the natural landscape that led to the creation of architectural forms: the human response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. From its origins as a frontier fortification to its heyday of industrial expansion, through eras of City Beautiful planning and urban Renaissance to today's vision of a green sustainable city, Pittsburgh has offered environmental and architectural experiences unlike any other place. Aurand adopts the viewpoint of the spectator to study three of Pittsburgh's ""terrestrial rooms"": the downtown Golden Triangle; the Turtle Creek Valley with its industrial landscape; and Oakland, the cultural and university district. He examines the development of these areas and their significance to our perceptions of a singular American city, shaped to its topography.

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Martin Aurand is architecture librarian and archivist at Carnegie Mellon University.

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