Title: Singing The City
Subtitle: The Bonds Of Home In An Industrial Landscape
First published: 1998
Description: Convinced that industrial landscapes are too little understood and appreciated, Graham set out to investigate the city's landscape, past and present, and to learn the lessons she sensed were there about living a good life. The result, told in both her voice and the distinctive voices of the people she meets, is a powerful contribution to the literature of place.

Singing the City is an eloquent tribute to a way of life largely disappearing in America, using Pittsburgh as a lens. Graham is not blind to the damage industry has done - both to people and to the environment. But she shows us that there is also a rich human story that has gone largely untold, one that reveals, in all its ambiguities, the place of the industrial landscape in the heart.
Subjects: Steel industry and trade, Social life and customs, Homes and haunts, History, Cities and towns, Pittsburgh (pa.), State & Local, General, Homes, Manners and customs
Places: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Pa.)
People: Laurie Graham
LC classification: F159.P657 G73 1998