Roy Lubove

Biography Lubove was born in Jackson Heights, Queens on September 3, 1934, to a family of Polish immigrants. The Professional Altruist: The Emergence of Social Work as a Career, 1880-1930 (1968), and Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. 1: Government, Business and Change (1969). He was credited for a number of scholarly contributions to the study of urban, social welfare, and planning history, such as by proposing a new conceptual framework for urban history, one that emphasized decision-making, social organization, and urban change, and provided what Raymond A. Mohl calls "one of the best historical case studies of urban response to deindustrialization" in his book Twentieth Century Pittsburgh, Vol. 2: The Post-Steel Era (1995).

Lubove died of respiratory failure on February 17, 1995, at the Montefiore Hospital, Pittsburgh.