Joel A. Tarr

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Joel A. Tarr is affiliated with the following schools: Rutgers University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University

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According to Wikipedia, Joel A. Tarr is an American historian, currently the Richard S. Caliguiri University Professor of History and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research includes environmental and urban development and systems and their effects.

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The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective (1996) (326)
Technology and the Rise of the Networked City in Europe and America (1990) (152)
Water and wastes: a retrospective assessment of wastewater technology in the United States, 1800-1932. (1984) (104)
At the Intersection of Histories: Technology and the Environment (1998) (97)
THE FRAGMENTED METROPOLIS: LOS ANGELES 1850–1930 (1968) (85)
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (2007) (75)
Devastation and renewal : an environmental history of Pittsburgh and its region (2004) (74)
The Metabolism of the Industrial City (2002) (66)
The Importance of an Urban Perspective in Environmental History (1994) (60)
The Separate vs. Combined Sewer Problem (1979) (59)
The search for the ultimate sink (1996) (49)
From city to farm: urban wastes and the American farmer. (1975) (42)
Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating (2014) (37)
Technology and the City (1990) (34)
Industrial wastes and public health: some historical notes, Part I, 1876-1932. (1985) (29)
The City and the Telegraph (1987) (25)
Historical Perspectives On Hazardous Wastes in the United States (1985) (24)
Changing fuel use behavior ... the Pittsburgh smoke control movement, 1940-1950. (1981) (24)
Environmental Activism, Locomotive Smoke, and the Corporate Response: The Case of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Chicago Smoke Control (1999) (23)
A study in boss politics : William Lorimer of Chicago (1972) (22)
Searching for a “Sink” for an Industrial Waste: Iron-Making Fuels and the Environment (1994) (20)
Ownership and Financing of Infrastructure: Historical Perspectives (1995) (19)
History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976 (1976) (15)
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Air, Land, and Water Pollution in Historical Perspective (2016) (13)
The Decline of the Urban Horse in American Cities (2003) (13)
Applied History: A New-Old Departure. (1981) (12)
Reconstruction of long-term time series for commercial fisheries abundance and estuarine pollution loadings (1985) (12)
Toxic Legacy: The Environmental Impact of the Manufactured Gas Industry in the United States (2014) (12)
Managing Danger in the Home Environment, 1900–1940 (1996) (12)
Environmental Risk in Historical Perspective (1987) (11)
Industrial Waste Disposal in the United States as a Historical Problem (2002) (10)
The Horse as an Urban Technology (2008) (10)
From Streetcar to Superhighway: American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940. (Technology and Urban Growth). Mark S. Foster (1983) (9)
The City and Technology (2008) (9)
Decisions about Wastewater Technology: 1850-1932 (1977) (9)
Disputes over water quality policy: professional cultures in conflict, 1900-1917. (1980) (9)
Technological networks and the American city: some historiographical notes (1990) (9)
Copper Emissions from Fuel Combustion Consumption and Industry in Two Urban Areas 1900–1980 (2001) (8)
A Note on the Horse as an Urban Power Source (1999) (8)
Introduction: Technology, Politics, and the Structuring of the City (2004) (7)
Impacts of world development on selected characteristics of the atmosphere: An integrative approach: Volume 1, Main report (1987) (7)
Technology and the Environment: The Historians’ Challenge (1994) (7)
TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION AND CHANGING SPATIAL PATTERNS: PITTSBURGH, 1850-1910 (1972) (7)
J. R. Walsh of Chicago: A Case Study in Banking and Politics, 1881–1905 (1966) (7)
Curriculum in Applied History: Toward the Future (1987) (7)
A Study in Boss Politics: William Lorimer of Chicago@@@A Cycle of Power: The Career of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague (1974) (7)
The Horse in the City (2007) (6)
Historic Turning Points in Municipal Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal, 1850-1932 (1977) (6)
Patterns and Policy Choices in Infrastructure History: The United States, France, and Great Britain (1996) (6)
A History of American City Government: The Conspicuous Failure, 1870–1900. By Ernest S. Griffith. New York: Praeger and A History of American City Government: The Progressive Years and Their Aftermath, 1900–1920. By Ernest S. Griffith. New York: Praeger (1975) (6)
The City as an Artifact of Technology and the Environment (2010) (6)
International Conference on the City and Technology-Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, December 12-15, 1983 (1985) (6)
A Retrospective Technology Assessment: Submarine Telegraphy--The Transatlantic Cable of 1866. Vary T. Coates , Bernard Finn (1981) (5)
Housewives as home safety managers: the changing perception of the home as a place of hazard and risk, 1870-1940. (1997) (5)
Retrospective Technology Assessment-1976 (1978) (5)
Crisis Perception and Policy Outcomes: Comparison between Environmental and Infrastructure Crises (1995) (5)
Introduction Some Thoughts about the Pittsburgh Environment (2006) (5)
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective. By Joel A. Tarr. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1996. 419 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95 (1998) (5)
Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History: Development, Policy, and Environmental Effects, 1878–1920 (2015) (5)
INFRASTRUCTURE AND URBAN GROWTH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1985) (5)
The origin of federal drinking water quality standards (2011) (4)
Manufactured Gas, History of (2004) (4)
Retrospective Technology Assessment: Carnegie-Mellon University, December 2-4, 1976 (1977) (4)
A Historian and the Federal Government (1969) (4)
Illuminating the streets, alleys, parks and suburbs of the American City: non-networked technologies, 1870-1920 (2020) (4)
The Mayor who Mastered New York: The Life & Opinions of William J. Gaynor@@@Al Smith: Hero of the Cities. A Political Portrait Drawing on the Papers of Frances Perkins@@@The First Hurrah: A Biography of Alfred E. Smith (1970) (4)
THE INTERACTION OF NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS IN THE PITTSBURGH LANDSCAPE (2019) (3)
The Environmental History of Pennsylvania (1999) (3)
The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space (review) (2007) (3)
The municipal telegraph network: origins of the fire and police alarm systems in American cities (1992) (3)
Urban Horses and Changing City-Hinterland Relationships (2005) (2)
PITTSBURGH’S THREE RIVERS (2019) (2)
THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN URBAN TECHNOLOGY (1992) (2)
The words and music of Patti Smith (2008) (2)
Infrastructure: Water and Sewers (2016) (2)
Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital: Perspectives on Coal and Natural Gas Transitions and the Environment (2014) (2)
Urban Environmental History (2010) (2)
The City and Technology. Special Issue of the "Journal of Urban History" Vol. 5 (May 1979) (1980) (2)
Environmental legacy: the impact of the manufactured gas industry in the United States (2015) (2)
Water, Electricity and Cable Television: A Study of Contrasting Historical Patterns of Ownership and Regulation (1985) (2)
Lighting the Streets, Alleys, and Parks of the Smoky City, 1816–1930 (2019) (2)
Ownership and Financing (1995) (2)
Coal and Natural Gas: Fuel and Environmental Policy in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1940-1960 (1980) (1)
The Horse Era in Pittsburgh (2009) (1)
Review Essay: Shaping Boston's Site and Cleaning Its Harbor Waters (2009) (1)
Sewers and Cities: France and the United States Compared (1982) (1)
PITTSBURGH AS AN ENERGY CAPITAL (2019) (1)
Introduction (2004) (1)
The Ungovernable City: The Politics of Urban Problems and Policy Making.Douglas Yates (1979) (1)
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History? (2005) (1)
I. THE NATURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 1. OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CULTURE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY1 (2003) (1)
Herman R. Lantz. A Community in Search of Itself: A Case History of Cairo, Illinois. Pp. xiii, 236. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1972. $10.00 (1972) (1)
Pittsburgh's Three Rivers: From Urban Industrial Infrastructure to Environmental Infrastructure (2008) (1)
The Horse as Technology - the City Animal as Cyborg (2006) (1)
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (review) (2010) (0)
Indiana In Transition: The Emergence of an Industrial Commonwealth, 1880–1920. By Clifton J. Phillips. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Historical Society, 1968. xiv + 674 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $7.50; Paper, $4.50.) (1969) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue (1999) (0)
"Water and Wastes"-Societal Values and User Values (1985) (0)
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING IN 1875: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AND THEIR PLAN FOR RAPID TRANSIT IN NEW YORK CITY (1973) (0)
Book Reviews: The Divided Metropolis: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975, edited by William W. Cutler III and Howard Gillette, Jr. (1982) (0)
Animal City: The Domestication of America. By Andrew A. Robichaud (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2019) 338 pp. $39.95 (2020) (0)
Devastation and Renewal: Water, Air and Land in Pittsburgh Environmental History (2009) (0)
PITTSBURGH’S INDUSTRIAL CORRIDORS (2006) (0)
Patterns in the History of the Urban Infrastructure (1993) (0)
THE OMNIBUS, COMMUTER RAILROAD, AND HORSECAR (2019) (0)
Out of sight, out of mind. (1976) (0)
REVIEW OF ORSI, HAZARDOUS METROPOLIS (2005) (0)
The sti:ongest essay in the volume, Tarr and Zimring's analysis of St. Louis's pioneering role in smoke control, explores the process through which citizen groups and policy makers mobüized popular sentiment and transformed public concem about the environment (2009) (0)
LAND USE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN THE HUDSON-RARITAN ESTUARY REGION, 1700–1980, WITH AN ADDENDUM TO 2018 (2021) (0)
Book Reviews: Immigration and Industrialization: Ethnicity in an American Mill Town, 1870-1940, by John Bodnar (1979) (0)
Book Reviews:The New Deal and the Last Hurrah: Pittsburgh Machine Politics, by Bruce M. Stave (1972) (0)
THE CABLE AND ELECTRIC STREETCAR NETWORKS (2019) (0)
Controlling Crowds: On the Technological Management of Entertainment Audiences (2023) (0)
Gerard T. Koeppel. Water for Gotham: A History . Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 2000. xiv + 335 pp. ISBN 0-691-01139-7, $29.95. (2001) (0)
Tammany: Evolution of a Political Machine, 1789–1865. Jerome Mushkat. (Syracuse, N. Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Pp. 476. $15.00.) (1974) (0)
SEARCHING FOR A SINK FOR AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Conflicted American Landscapes by David E. Nye (review) (2023) (0)
RISK-MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE-CONDITION ASSESSMENT (0)
Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, and Planning (2019) (0)
WATER FOR THE MULTITUDES: (2020) (0)
MICHAEL H. FRISCH. Town Into City, Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Meaning of Community, 1840-1880. Pp ix, 301. Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1972. $10.00 (1973) (0)
Book Review: Still Philadelphia: A Photographic History, 1890-1940, by Joel A. Tarr (1984) (0)
Introduction (1987) (0)
Philo E. Thompson's Diary of a Journey on the Main Line Canal (1965) (0)
Effects of Global Change on U.S. Urban Areas: Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Adaptation (2007) (0)
Book Review: Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 1880-1912. By Charles W. Cheape (1980) (0)
Lessons from Pennsylvania's Environmental Past (2010) (0)
David Stradling and Richard Stradling. Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland. (2016) (0)
Review: Tramways and Trolleys: The Rise of Urban Mass Transport in Europe by John P. McKay (1977) (0)
ADDITIONAL WORKS ON PITTSBURGH BY THE AUTHORS (2019) (0)
Framing the City at the Point: The Development of Pittsburgh's Infrastructure in the 19th Century (2002) (0)
Straightening the Policy History Tree (1993) (0)
Charles Francis Murphy, 1858-1924: Respectability and Responsibility in Tammany Politics@@@The Decline of the Progressive Movement in Wisconsin, 1890-1920@@@Embattled Democracy: Missouri Democratic Politics, 1919-1932 (1969) (0)
Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats by Dawn Day Beiehler (review) (2015) (0)
VAUGHN DAVIS BORNET. Labor Politics in a Democratic Republic: Moderation, Division, and Disruption in the Presidential Election of 1928. Pp. xiii, 376. Washington, D.C.: Spartan Books, 1964. $6.95 (1966) (0)
THE AUTOMOBILE COMES TO PITTSBURGH, 1910–1935 (2019) (0)
On Foot: A History of Walking (review) (2007) (0)
Rethinking the American City: An International Dialogue ed. by Miles Orvell and Klaus Benesch (review) (2015) (0)
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present (review) (2002) (0)
The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space. Edited by Andrew C. Isenberg (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, 2006) 200 pp. $75.00 (2007) (0)
Book Review: Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830-1930; by Geoffrey Tweedale (1988) (0)
GOLDFINGER, THE GOLD CONSPIRACY AND THE POPULISTS (1966) (0)
Joy J. Jockson. New Orleans in the Gilded Age : Politics and Urban Progress 1880-1896. Pp. xi, 355. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press for the Louisiana Historical Association, 1969. $8.50 (1970) (0)
BOOM AND BUST IN PITTSBURGH NATURAL GAS HISTORY (2019) (0)
[Observations on electric trauma]. (1954) (0)
ROGER LANE. Policing the City: Boston 1822-1885. Pp. viii, 299. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. $8.50 (1968) (0)
Urban Growth and the Circulation of Information: The United States System of Cities, 1790-1840@@@Riches, Class, and Power before the Civil War@@@The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (1976) (0)
Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats. By Dawn Day Beiehler (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013. xvii plus 215 pp. $34.95) (2015) (0)

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