The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).

Last week, in the German city of Dusseldorf, G. David Thompson was making headlines that could well give Pittsburgh pause.

The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives.

In 1901, the U. S. Steel Corporation was formed, and by 1911 Pittsburgh was the nation's eighth largest city, producing between a third and a half of the nation's steel.

Although Pittsburgh successfully shifted the focus of its economy and remained a viable city, the city's population never rebounded to its industrial-era highs.

Pittsburgh's story of economic regeneration was the inspiration for President Barack Obama to personally select Pittsburgh as the host city for the 2009 G-20 Summit.

" In addition to the downtown Golden Triangle, the city extends northeast to include the Oakland and Shadyside sections, which are home to the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Museum and Library, and many other educational, medical, and cultural institutions.

What is known today as Pittsburgh's North Side was once known as Allegheny City and operated as a city independently of Pittsburgh.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

Near the old Forbes Field where he began his pro career the city of Pittsburgh has renamed a street in his honor.

Listings in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966.

* Pittsburgh annexed Allegheny City, which is now the quarter of the city that lies north of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers.

The American city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is named after him, as are numerous other cities and towns in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

* April 10 – A great fire destroys much of the American city of Pittsburgh.

In the DuckTales episode " Double O ' Duck ", a map is shown which shows Duckburg as being located approximately where the city of Pittsburgh, PA would be.

Latrobe () is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in the United States, approximately southeast of Pittsburgh.

In the latter 19th century, Lynchburg's economy evolved into manufacturing ( sometimes referred to as the " Pittsburgh of the South ") and, per capita, made the city one of the wealthiest in the United States.

Its county seat is Allentown, the state's third largest city behind Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

While Fayette County is a generally rural area and is not directly tied into the interstate system, it features four-lane access to the city of Pittsburgh and several of its major suburban areas.

* 25px25px Pennsylvania Route 43-part of the Mon-Fayette Expressway, it serves as a toll freeway currently connecting Uniontown to the southern Pittsburgh suburb of Jefferson Hills, with eventually plans to extend the route to the city limits ; to the south, it provides high-speed freeway access to Morgantown, West Virginia

* 25px Pennsylvania Route 51-provides the major connection between Uniontown and Pittsburgh city limits, which functions as a four-lane route except during its final mile as a major Uniontown city street

It was named after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the " h " removed, the city of origin of one of the first settlers.

Western Pennsylvania, which contains the cities of Erie and Pittsburgh, plus the Western New York city of Buffalo, share history with the Midwest but overlap with Appalachia and the Northeast as well.

He developed city plans for San Francisco ( 1905 ), Chicago ( 1909 ), Manila and the Mall in Washington D. C. His company designed many noteworthy buildings in Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and other cities in the US.

Disgruntled with his opportunities in Etruria ( he had been prohibited from obtaining political office in Tarquinii because of the ethnicity of his father, Demaratus the Corinthian, who came from the Greek city of Corinth ), he migrated to Rome with his wife Tanaquil, at her suggestion.

As a result, Mecca has become one of the most cosmopolitan and diverse cities in the Muslim world, although non-Muslims remain prohibited from entering the city.

Even with a license, Bargrave was prohibited from carrying any books, " printed at any heretical city, as Geneva, Amsterdam, Leyden, London, or the like ".

In 1503, he was arrested for forging the seal and signature of a fraudulent contractor and was sentenced to be branded on both of his cheeks and prohibited from leaving Nuremberg without the explicit permission of the city council.

Following the fire the government prohibited quick rebuilding, so it could implement the new redesign of the city according to the European-style urban plan prepared by a group of architects, including the Briton Thomas Mawson, and headed by French architect Ernest Hébrard.

The deed of each of the original houses prohibited alcohol from being made or sold on the property, a prohibition that continued in the city until 1983.

In May, in the heavily Buddhist central city of Huế, where Diệm's elder brother was the Catholic Archbishop, the Buddhist majority was prohibited from displaying Buddhist flags during Vesak celebrations commemorating the birth of Gautama Buddha when the government cited a regulation prohibiting the display of non-government flags.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling.

The county is dry, meaning that the sale of alcohol is prohibited, but it contains the " wet " city of Springfield, where retail alcohol sales are allowed.

The county would be dry, meaning that the sale of alcohol is prohibited, but contains the wet city of Bowling Green, where retail alcohol sales are allowed.

It is a limited dry county ; sales of alcoholic beverages are prohibited except by the drink in restaurants in the city of Franklin that seat at least 100 diners and derive at least 70 % of total revenues from food.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city, in this case Morehead, where package alcohol sales are allowed.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city, in this case two cities: Pikeville and suburb Coal Run Village, where package alcohol sales are allowed.

It is a limited dry county, meaning that the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited except by the drink in restaurants in the city of Kuttawa that seat at least 100 diners and derive at least 70 % of total sales from food.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a " moist county ", where alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but that contains a " wet " city, in this case Nicholasville, where package alcohol sales are allowed.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city.

The city was incorporated by owners of the many lodges and resorts along U. S. Route 20 in 1947, primarily to circumvent Idaho's liquor laws that prohibited the sale of liquor outside of city limits.

The city charter in 1907 prohibited the possession, sale, or consumption of alcoholic beverages, and East Lansing was a " dry " city until voters modified the charter provision in 1968.

It was also prohibited to buy up products on the roadsides and sell them later in the city at a higher price.

In May 1963, in the central city of Huế, where Thục was archbishop, Buddhists were prohibited from displaying the Buddhist flag during Vesak celebrations commemorating the birth of Gautama Buddha, when the government cited a regulation prohibiting the display of non-government flags at Thục's request.

He sat down and drafted an amendment to the city ’ s Municipal Code which made it illegal for a renter or owner of an apartment, house, or condo to be prohibited from " placing or affixing a religious sign, symbol or relic on the door, door post or entrance.

In 1929, both the first Howard Johnson's restaurant and Howard Johnson's company received an incredible break due to an unusual set of circumstances: The Mayor of nearby Boston, Malcolm Nichols, prohibited the planned production of Eugene O ' Neill's play, Strange Interlude, from performing in his city.