Laura Grantmyre
Biographic Data
| ID | 818215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Grantmyre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Grantmyre |
| SIGNATURE | GRANTMYRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Point Park University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conflicting visions of renewal in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1950–1968
Visual representations of the Lower Hill District created by Pittsburgh's redevelopment coalition and by neighbourhood insiders reveal the conflicting ways redevelopers and residents understood older neighbourhoods and their redevelopment. Redevelopers’ maps and photographs of the Lower Hill documented the neighbourhood's densely built-up blocks and intermixture of land uses as definitive examples of blight that threatened downtown's economic hea…
Selling Pittsburgh as America’s Renaissance City
3. Joel A. Tarr, ed., Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). 4. Long a subject of scholarly attention, urban renewal has recently come under renewed consideration. See the “Special Section: Thinking through Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 39, no. 3 (May 2013): 359–453; and “Forum: Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 40, no. 4 (July 2014): 631…
Ideas, Actors, Conflicts, and Contexts Matter
They lived their life and they didn't bother anybody
Photographs taken in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the 1940s and 1950s show African American female impersonators riding in street parades and performing in front of jazz bands. Many historians depict queer American life in this era as invisible and isolated, but these photographs, the Pittsburgh Courier , and residents' recollections offer a more complex narrative. The Hill's cultural diversity, black-white sex district, and risqué entertain…
They lived their life and they didn't bother anybody
Photographs taken in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the 1940s and 1950s show African American female impersonators riding in street parades and performing in front of jazz bands. Many historians depict queer American life in this era as invisible and isolated, but these photographs, the Pittsburgh Courier , and residents' recollections offer a more complex narrative. The Hill's cultural diversity, black-white sex district, and risqué entertain…
They lived their life and they didn't bother anybody
Photographs taken in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the 1940s and 1950s show African American female impersonators riding in street parades and performing in front of jazz bands. Many historians depict queer American life in this era as invisible and isolated, but these photographs, the Pittsburgh Courier , and residents' recollections offer a more complex narrative. The Hill's cultural diversity, black-white sex district, and risqué entertain…
Selling Pittsburgh as America’s Renaissance City
3. Joel A. Tarr, ed., Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). 4. Long a subject of scholarly attention, urban renewal has recently come under renewed consideration. See the “Special Section: Thinking through Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 39, no. 3 (May 2013): 359–453; and “Forum: Urban Renewal,” Journal of Urban History 40, no. 4 (July 2014): 631…
Ideas, Actors, Conflicts, and Contexts Matter
Conflicting visions of renewal in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1950–1968
Visual representations of the Lower Hill District created by Pittsburgh's redevelopment coalition and by neighbourhood insiders reveal the conflicting ways redevelopers and residents understood older neighbourhoods and their redevelopment. Redevelopers’ maps and photographs of the Lower Hill documented the neighbourhood's densely built-up blocks and intermixture of land uses as definitive examples of blight that threatened downtown's economic hea…
History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · African american (1 works)