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Imagining the Modern: Architecture and Urbanism of the Pittsburgh Renaissance Carousel Artwork test the authoritative grand dame ofImagining the Modern explores Pittsburgh's ambitious modern architecture and urban renewal program that made it a gem of American postwar cities, and set the stage for its stature today. In the 1950s and '60s an ambitious program of urban revitalization transformed Pittsburgh and became a model for other American cities. Billed as the Pittsburgh Renaissance, this era of superlatives the city claimed the tallest aluminum clad building, the world's