HAA 1510 Pittsburgh Architecture and Urbanism

This course will show how we shape the physical environment of Pittsburgh, and how it shapes us. Two disciplines are united in the course: the histories of architecture and urbanism, and their interaction in creating and sustaining the city of Pittsburgh. The course is an outgrowth of the instructor's book, Pittsburgh: A New Portrait (2009). Like the book, the course studies the physical environment of
Pittsburgh: its topography, early patterns of settlement, the expansion of its industrial center, the creation of residential neighborhoods, the post-World War II Renaissance, and the urban implications of the current shift from production to a service-based economy. The course goes beyond the book to study Pittsburgh's long-term urban patterns over the past few centuries, and how they
created Pittsburgh and its architecture as we see them today.