Scope and Contents The City Planning Commission Records contains meeting minutes, Planning Department staff reports, plans of lots and surveys from 1918 to 2006. The collection provides insight into the Commission’s work throughout most of the 20th century. The meeting minutes are particularly comprehensive and detailed, and the staff reports typically include citations of the specific meetings at which the Commission received and reviewed them.The collection is arranged into the following three...

Scope and Contents The City Planning Department Library Collection is housed in 244 archival boxes and is arranged in 16 series. The collection consists of planning reports, planning studies, numerous types of project proposals, census tract information, and annual reports from multiple city departments and organizations from Pittsburgh and other major U.S. cities. Particular series of note include the Pittsburgh Planning, Redevelopment, and Renewal series, which includes hundreds of redevelopment reports and...