A Green Roof

“ The Big Little City,” also commonly know as the city of Pittsburgh, is one of the largest cites in the state of Pennsylvania. With over 144 square kilometers of land area, and approximately seven square kilometers of surface water (Pittsburgh Pennsylvania), the city of Pittsburgh is large by anyone’s standard. The city, which is located in western Pennsylvania, has a very diverse geography which sets it apart from many other cities in the United States. Pittsburgh and its suburbs are known for steep hillsides covered with buildings, streets which have steps for sidewalks, and sidewalks which are named streets. From the highest point in Allegheny County, 1,401 feet at River Hill in Forward Township, to the 710

The borough of Centralia was once a community that had enough coal to make it a lively, industrial area. It was a small community, but a prosperous town, operating its own school district. Centralia once had 5 hotels, 7 churches, 27 saloons, 2 theaters, a bank, a post office, and 14 stores. The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania had veins full of anthracite, the richest and purest coal of all. There is just one problem: It is difficult to ignite anthracite, but once it is lit, it is very hard to put out. No one really knows what happened but one theory suggests that in the spring of 1962, five volunteer firefighters were burning excess garbage in a landfill behind Odd Fellows Cemetery. They unknowingly picked a spot where anthracite was near the

#19. The green roof provides shade, remove air particulates. Protects the roof from sun damage, and cool the air as water lost moist from plants leaves.

Every group had its own suggestions for green infrastructure. The most popular method among the projects was the implementation of green roofs. As every group stated, green roofs can help regulate temperatures inside buildings, saving costs on heating and cooling. They are handy in capturing storm water runoff, which can then be used for food production. Group A did a good job showing these benefits, but neglected to consider the possible detrimental

We even learned to brave the bus, and one day rode it as far as Kennywood Park to encounter that mythic beast, the Thunderbolt. Many years later, I was to evoke that lost neighborhood of Junction Hollow, that stairway and the impenetrable factory that guarded its uppermost landing in my first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. And of all the questions that have been put to me, over the years, regarding that book, one of the most frequent, from people who don’t know Pittsburgh, and even from some who do, has been, “So, the Cloud Factory, the Lost Neighborhood. Does that stuff really exist or did you make it all up?” I’m usually quick to reply, without thinking much about the question, “Yes. It’s all real.” Sometimes I explain that the term “Cloud Factory” refers to what is actually a marvelous piece of antique steam machinery known as the Bellefield Boiler Plant (it’s just right over there, somewhere, and probably lighting this hall right now). I explain that that term did not even originate with me, but was in general, if not common use among Pitt and CMU students for years before I started college here. But what I’ve come to realize, looking back over the afternoon and indeed the whole of my history and even prehistory in Pittsburgh, is that this is the place where things began to happen to me, where I began to see things that sounded as if I must have invented them, when in fact they were real, visible, and

Since World War II, Pittsburgh has transitioned from a manufacturing town to one of health, education, and technology. It has been used as an example of how rust belt cities can come back after a major loss of industry. Not only was the economy able to deal with the blow of the loss of steel, but also the culture and quality of life was able to improve when things looked bleak. Evidence of this is visible in the innovative building use, use of public land, and public amenities. In the time after WWII, there were negative changes as well including community loss and resident relocation and some previous problems that persisted through that reinvention.

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The sloping orientation of the landscape maximises public space whilst having a relatively small footprint. Some roofing areas of the building

As I stand on the top of Mt. Washington and look out over the city on this beautiful Autumn evening, I watch all of the city lights reflect off of the glorious PPG building made of the toughest steel and beautiful black glass. The lights reflect along the Three Rivers and I am taken back by how many gorgeous bridges this city has. I gaze across all of it until my eyes meet another prominence in the distance; I recognize this to be the Cathedral of Learning where both Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are located. This view is breathtaking every single time and I feel as if I’m in a dream, as if I am so lucky to be from this city. They call us the Steel City for a reason. It’s not just our history. It’s a mentality and a way

A rooftop space would touch on many aspects of the needs of the residents, and will continue to uphold the values of your organization to facilitate a prosperous and healthy community, free of the devastating affects of homelessness and poverty (Human Solutions n.d.). It will also contribute to the link between health and housing as shown in numerous reports from the Surgeon General, Department of Housing and Urban Development, WHO, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (pewtrusts.org). I hope your organization will consider this proposal and how it can impact the residents of these buildings and their

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Green Buildings can help the earth in so many ways. Being certified means that you build more environmentally friendly, which means that building green friendly can reduce the negative effect buildings and operations have on the environment. Also green building greatly decreases the chances of fire, explosions, spills or splashes. Building green also reduces health problems such as allergies.

One expects steel towns to be dirty. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one in sight from the

Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the energy use, water use, indoor air environment, materials used and the effect it has on the site the green building is being built on. The first green buildings dates back to as far as the 1970’s, when solar panels went from experiments to reality. Green buildings were not as popular as they are today due to their extremely high pricing. With technology rapidly growing, solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper, making the transition to creating green buildings more affordable. This is the primary reason for the increased growth of green buildings today. A modern company that is paving the way to the growth of green buildings named LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, focuses primarily on new and effective ideas for environmentally friendly buildings projects. With more than 60,000 commercial projects worldwide and 1.7 million square feet being certified every day, LEED is one of the leading groups for promoting green buildings. LEED has popularized the entire

For over half a century the Pittsburgh region was the largest concentration of steel making in the world. Its collapse was spectacular. The mill towns strung along the Monongahela Valley have now suffered forty years of decline. Much of their shabby infrastructure and buildings (at best homely even in their prime) has decayed, most of their population has fled to the metropolitan suburbs or left the region, and those that remain, for the most part poor, struggle or live off memories. Regeneration is a continuing problem for public policy makers as the mill towns struggle on life-support systems — public welfare for individual households; funding from federal, state and local agencies for public services, projects and a plethora of