Is Pittsburgh In Your Future?

June 4, 2008

Okay, here’s today’s puzzle: Imagine that you wanted to live in a city with terrific museums, professional sports, cheap housing and short commutes. Where would it be?

Pittsburgh may well be the nation’s least-appreciated big city. Long associated with steel mills and choking smoke, the old image of Pittsburgh is out-dated and wrong. Instead the city today has a gleaming downtown and a new emphasis on medicine, robotics, computer engineering and bio-tech.

Pittsburgh has much to tell us about urban renewal. In 1936 the St. Patrick’s Day flood decimated the downtown area and left more READ MORE

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