RESOURCES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Please note: Registered entrants will have access to additional high resolution images, maps, and detail drawings.
RESOURCE LIST
Riverlife Task Force
A Vision Plan for Pittsburgh’s Riverfronts (multiple sections)
Three Rivers Park Design Handbook
Connecting the Loop
Three Rivers Park Lighting Strategy
City of Pittsburgh, Department of City Planning
Downtown plan
Riverfront plan
Pittsburgh Bridges
Historical information, pictures and description of the West End Bridge
Pennsylvania’s Historic Architecture & Archaeology
National Historic Register Form for West End Bridge
ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
PennDOT Design Manual, Part IV - Structures, Bridge Design Specs
Manual is free of charge, and accessed from PennDOT’s website
PennDOT Maps and Publications
List of PennDOT Maps and Publications available through the Sales Store
1992 AASHTO Bridge Design Manual, Strength Design Method (Load Factor Design)
This item is for sale at the AASHTO website.
Walking information
Bicycling information
Rails and trails types, design, costs & benefits and development issues
GENERAL LINKS
Friends of the Riverfront
Pittsburgh Environmental Issues
Three Rivers Rowing
COMMUNITY LINKS
West End Improvements
Improvements planned for South end of Bridge
City of Pittsburgh Neighborhood Information Pages
Downtown
North Side
West End
IMAGE RESOURCES
Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections
Google Earth
General site satellite view, topography
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania Historic photographic collection
Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere
Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record
PennDOT Video Log
PA State Highway Video Log
BOOKS, ARTICLES AND VIDEO
Article:
Pittsburgh Community Development Network
Details of planned developments on Pittsburgh riverfronts
Article: Pedestrian Bridges: What works; What doesn’t.
30 Bridges
By Matthew Wells
Watson-Guptill Publications (2002)
Bridges, A History of the World’s Most Famous and Important Spans
By Judith DuprŽ
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (1997)
Bridges of the World, Their Design and Construction
By Charles S.
Whitney Dover Publications, Inc. (2003)
Bridgescape, The Art of Designing Bridges, Second Edition
By Frederick
Gottemoeller John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2004)
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
By Henry Petroski
Vintage (1996)
Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait
By Franklin Toker
University of Pittsburgh Press
(1986)
Pittsburgh's Bridges: Architecture and Engineering
By Walter C. Kidney
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (1999)
The bridges of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
By Robert J Gangewere Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, Science and Technology Dept (2001)
Video:
"Flying off the Bridge to Nowhere & Other Tales of Pittsburgh
Bridges"
Rick Sebak, writer/producer/narrator