EPISODE · Sep 24, 2019 · 29 MIN
Pittsburgh's Latest Comeback
from City Journal Audio
John Tierney joins City Journal assistant editor Charles McElwee to discuss Pittsburgh's recent resurgence. "If you want to see how to revive a city—and how not to," John Tierney writes, "go to Pittsburgh." Pittsburgh has transformed itself from the Steel City to central Pennsylvania's hub of "eds" and "meds." But before that could happen, the city nearly destroyed itself under various misguided urban plans dating back to the 1950s. Tierney's essay, "A Renaissance Runs Through It," appears in City Journal's Summer 2019 issue; an adapted version was published in the Wall Street Journal.
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