THIS BOOK AND ITS CONTENTS ARE DEDICATED TO THOSE CITIZENS OF PITTSBURGH WHO, IMBUED WITH CIVIC PRIDE AND THE VISION OF A CITY USEFUL, CONVENIENT, ECONOMICAL AND HEALTHFUL, AS WELL AS BEAUTIFUL, WILL, IN THE YEARS TO COME, RESPOND TO THE CALL OF THEIR CITY TO SERVE IT WITHOUT HOPE OF PERSONAL REWARD, AND WITH PATIENCE, FIDELITY AND ENTHUSIASM.

PITTSBURGH CIVIC COMMISSION

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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[117]
Part V. Special Reports[123]
The Market[123]
The Hump Cut[128]
The City and the Allegheny River Bridges[133]

Letter of Transmissal

November 26, 1910.

Mr. T. E. Billquist, Chairman,
Committee on City Planning.
Pittsburgh Civic Commission.