More About Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, city in western Pennsylvania and seat of Allegheny County was the nation's foremost industrial city of the 19th century famous for its steel production.
Beginning in the 1970s it underwent severe deindustrialization as its massive steel complexes began to close. Today Pittsburgh is a postindustrial city, with an economy based on services, especially medical, financial, corporate, and educational, rather than steel.
Pittsburgh today is one of America's most attractive and most livable city; resilience and enthusiasm rather than coal fumes fill the air, and sleek architecture and green parks supplant smokestacks and slums. The popular Andy Warhol Museum, opened in 1994, has bolstered Pittsburgh's image as a destination city, while an enormous new Convention Center will bring in major conferences, which is sure to add to the influx of visitors.
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