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Patrick Vitale is an urban, economic and historical geographer. His research examines the effects of suburbanization, science and technology, and war on North American cities. He is currently completing a book, “The Atomic Capital of the World,” which explores the role of science and engineering in the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from Syracuse and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Patrick has spent most of his academic career researching Pittsburgh and is looking forward to beginning a new project that explores how the insurance industry shaped the Hartford region.
“Making Science Suburban: The Suburbanization of Industrial Research and the Invention of ‘Research Man.’” Environment and Planning A 49, no. 12 (2017): 2813–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17734855
“The Pittsburgh Fairy Tale.” Jacobin (blog), June 20, 2017. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/06/pittsburgh-tech-new-economy-manufacturing-inequality
“Cradle of the Creative Class: Reinventing the Figure of the Scientist in Cold War Pittsburgh.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 106, no. 6 (2016): 1378–96. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1199317
“Anti-Communism, The Growth Machine and the Remaking of Cold-War-Era Pittsburgh.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (2015): 772–87. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12279/abstract
“Decline Is Renewal.” Journal of Urban History 41, no. 1 (2015): 34–39. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0096144214551732