Fall in Pittsburgh brings the arrival of many new college students to the region's institutions of higher education. Newly matriculating and returning students together comprise a significant proportion of the young adult population across the Pittsburgh region. College students include individuals enrolled in community colleges, undergraduate...
Impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic include depressed levels of domestic and international travel to include smaller flows of workers coming into the United States. Contraction of economic activity was compounded by recent policies put in place between January and May 2020 that formally limited the entry of workers into country. On June 22,...
Last week the Pew Research Center reported on trends in the gender composition of the nation's college-educated workforce.* Their analysis showed that in the 1st quarter of 2019, the number of college-educated women in the workforce (29.5 million) exceeded the number of college-educated men (29.3 million) for the first time. With the gap between...
In recent decades, Western Pennsylvania has experienced extremely low rates of international immigrants moving into the region. As a result, the foreign-born population residing within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area has dropped from just over 25% a century ago, to under 4% today, a proportion that has consistently been among the lowest for large...
In Pittsburgh, some redevelopment efforts are more consequential because they never took place. In the early 1950s, plans to redevelop a large area of Pittsburgh's North Side included a concept to construct large high rise apartments to replace virtually all of the residential homes between Allegheny General Hospital and Brighton Avenue.
There is a lot of change going on in the city of Pittsburgh, but consider what was underway 60 years ago. Below is the Bicentennial Edition (1958) of a map produced by the City of Pittsburgh's Department of City Planning showing all the various projects they were working on at the time. Just some of the projects then underway or...
