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Videos
Watch an Entire Bridge Get Built In a 3-Year Time Lapse
Cue the Philip Glass for this entrancing footage of a Pennsylvania bridge being born.
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Photos
What Pittsburgh Looked Like When It Decided It Had a Pollution Problem
Photographs from the 1940s of the Steel City as it began to address its notoriously smoky air.
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Charts
Why Do We Tax Car-Sharing Like It's Liquor or Cigarettes?
Taxes on quick car-share trips run as high as 60 percent.
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The New Design Needs of the Information Economy
How offices and home spaces are changing to keep up with Generation Y.
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Maps
Map of the Day: The Digital Neighborhood
What Foursquare can teach us about how people use a city.
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Photos
Is the Retro Ballpark Movement Officially Over?
20 years since Camden Yards opened in Baltimore, a look back on the stadium design that's emerged since.
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Photos
Zipcar's Cities of the Future
Zipcar ranks U.S. cities on innovation, sustainability, and creativity.
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You Are Where You Wear
The often subtle (and occasionally lucrative) art of expressing city pride, via t-shirt.
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Photos
Faces of the Rust Belt
Photographer Gregory Halpern captures scenes of despair and surprising strength in his new book, A.
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Videos
Pittsburgh to Get Its Own Burning Man-Style 'Festival of Fire Arts'
The first-ever Pyrotopia will introduce Pennsylvanians to everyone's favorite art – the kind that burns.

