TABLE OF CONTENTS
Frederick Law Olmsted
Page
Letter of Transmissal
xi
City Planning and the Cost of Living in Pittsburgh
xiii
Introduction and Summary of Urgent Recommendations
1
Part I. The Down Town District
5
The Main Arteries
5
Eastward Arteries and Their Improvement
6
A New Traffic Center
9
Sixth Avenue
9
Try Street Grade Crossing
10
Second Avenue Freight Yards
10
The Hump Cut
10
Grant Boulevard Extension
11
A Civic Center
11
Diamond Street Widening
17
Market Street Widening
17
The Market
18
The Water Front
19
The Improvement of The Point
29
Part II. Main Thoroughfares
31
Width of Thoroughfares
31
Special Types of Thoroughfares
34
Widening Old Streets
37
Unified Procedure for City, County and Borough
43
Specific Recommendations
44
Penn Avenue Artery
44
Forbes Street Artery
47
South Hills Artery
49
Outlying Thoroughfare Improvements (with special indices)
59
Part III. Surveys and a City Plan
93
Pittsburgh's Need for Surveys
93
Objects to be Secured
94
Technical Procedure
95
Maps
96
Management and Cost
98
Sample Maps
98
Data from New York
98
Data from Baltimore
100
Part IV. Notes on Parks and Recreation Facilities
101
The Bellefield Improvement
101
Grant Boulevard
106
Steep Hillsides
109
General Discussion of Parks
113
Neighborhood Parks
113
Rural Parks
116
Special Park Opportunities
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