The Spectator and the Topographical City

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The Spectator and the Topographical City examines Pittsburgh’s built environment as it pertains to town’s unique topography. Martin Aurand explores the conditions present within the natural landscape that led to the creation of architectural forms; man’s response to an unruly terrain of hills, hollows, and rivers. From its origins as a frontier fortification to its heyday of commercial expansion; through eras of City Beautiful planning and urban Renaissance to these days’s vision of a green sustainable city; Pittsburgh has offered environmental and architectural experiences unlike some other place.

Aurand adopts the standpoint of the spectator to review 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 advance of those areas and their significance to our perceptions of a singular American city, shaped to its topography.

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