Brendan Gill, architecture writer for The New Yorker, 1990: "The three most beautiful cities in the world are Paris; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Pittsburgh. If Pittsburgh were situated somewhere in the heart of Europe, tourists would eagerly journey hundreds of miles out of their way to visit it."
Followed by a wealth of great pictures showing off the hills of Pittsburgh. Check it out.
4 comments:
Hmm -- it looks amazingly like Montreal. Cities on rivers...
Hey! I just looked at images on google of Montreal. There are a lot of similarities.
I lived in Portland, OR, for a long time. The Willamette ran right through the center of the city. There were a lot of differences, though. Portland streets adhere to a rigid grid, there aren't any alleys and the streets are generally wider.
Oh for a rigid grid of streets. Being an uptown girl from New York, I'm used to the concept known as "circling the block." Try that in Montreal and you can end up in Russia.
Ha!
I grew up in Pittsburgh and felt really uncomfortable with the grid system of streets when I lived in Portland.
In Pittsburgh, you can't get there from here is a pretty popular sentiment.
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