| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Joel Tarr, editor. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh and Its Region. Pittsburg, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 281. $32.00.

This book, edited by Joel Tarr, is an important though sometimes uneven contribution to the booming subdiscipline of urban environmental history. The volume also stands as the most recent contribution to what appears to be a scholarly trend: edited collections devoted to the environmental history of particular cities. St. Louis, San Antonio, and New Orleans have all been treated in this manner in recent years, and now Pittsburgh joins the club. Tarr's collection, however, contrasts with previous offerings by embracing a welcome shift in environmental history, as its contributors sometimes forsake narratives of unrelenting declension to focus on positive developments in the relationship between cities and nature. In short, as the title promises, some renewal accompanies the devastation that Pittsburgh has wrought on its environs.

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