John Tierney\xa0joins\xa0City Journal\xa0assistant editor\xa0Charles McElwee\xa0to discuss Pittsburgh's recent resurgence.
"If you want to see how to revive a city\u2014and 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\xa0City Journal's Summer 2019 issue; an adapted version was published in the\xa0Wall Street Journal.