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Originally Posted by simms3_redux
Great tour and really awesome information. One can tell that Pittsburgh/Oakland really really benefited (and still does obviously) from all of the Gilded Age titans that once called it home. Some amazing architecture exists there - gotta love American classical architecture from the late 19th/early 20th century through the Deco period.
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Yes it's amazing to see what aspects of city building stands the test of time. I know that very few residents in the Pittsburgh metro EVER thought that the hundreds of massive steel mills lining the rivers would ever be gone. (Each steel mill was like a city, with a skyline, unto itself) And yet, in just a couple decades they vanished. To say that it was shocking to the residents would be an understatement.
The ABILITY to learn and adapt turned out to be the most important thing that the billionaires left us. Carnegie's massive library network and the universities they founded - Carnegie Mellon, Univ of Pitt, etc turned out to be MUCH more crucial to the future than the massive industry that seemed untouchable.