Pittsburgh might be called the city of surprises. Contrary to a long-lived reputation for smoke and steel, this post-modern metropolis has become a world-class example of a city excelling in the art of self-transformation.
Even after the decline of steel in the 1980s, manufacturing remains a powerful and now more stable part of Pittsburgh's future. Across its diversified economy jobs flow from a larger stream of businesses, institutions, and startup enterprises in health care, education, information technologies, robotics, fashion, and finance--as well as an array of professional services in engineering, accounting and law.
To these dynamic sectors, Pittsburgh adds the assets of a well-maintained infrastructure, a world-renowned catalog of educational and research institutions, and a calendar of diversions kept full throughout the year. Placed in a landscape that captures the eye with its natural and created vistas, Pittsburgh has used the lessons of change to learn how to look ahead.
Read more about it each week in our sister publication,
Pop City, devoted to Pittsburgh's transformation.
By: John Steele, 6/4/2009
As research universities across the Commonwealth focus more resources
on innovation and industries, they're getting savvy about how to turn
laboratory and classroom ideas into cutting-edge technology companies.
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By: John Davidson, 5/7/2009
Barbara VanKirk, founder of the Murrysville-based IT consulting firm IQ
Inc., has been in the software business for more than 30 years and has
seen drastic changes to the industry. We spoke with
VanKirk about the past, the ever-changing present and the
not-too-distant future of computer technology.
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By: Joseph Plummer, 4/30/2009
As a former newspaperman, John Craig possesses a honed talent for challenging the veracity of
stories told to him. That habit of mind helps drive his work to secure Pittsburgh Today as one of America's rare
repositories of information about the relative performance of a metropolitan
region.
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By: John Steele, 4/23/2009
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has begun sending funds to America's most troubled cities. Interest in how tax dollars are being spent is high, so we thought we should let you know where Pennsylvania's sizable piece of the funding
pie is going to end up. Here's a look at three large funding recipients--and what they plan to do with your money.
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By: Abby Mendelson, 4/16/2009
Once industrial wastelands, Pittsburgh's Three Rivers are now engines
driving the twin goals of recreation and economic growth--and a shining
example of how to reconnect a city to its waterfront.
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