Pittsburgh is an amazing city with amazing folks doing amazing work; Emily Anderson, a project manager for the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG), is no exception! Check out this great conversation we had with her during the 4th Annual Great Lakes Urban Exchange Conference. To learn more about Emily and the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group [...]
I am a recovering selfish prick. On this day, ten years ago, I was eating Lucky Charms in my sweatpants watching cartoons, deciding whether or not to skip class at Lakeland Community College. I was living day-to-day as an aspiring musician with moderate skill and an overfed ego. I hadn’t seriously thought about what this [...]
I will preface this post by saying that in no way am I a connoisseur of art, by any stretch of the imagination. I do however know that art in some way, shape or form impacts everyone’s life on a daily basis – whether positively or negatively, consciously or subconsciously. There has been a great [...]
“The Wonderful Future” was an idea for band name that I scribbled on a piece of scrap paper nearly ten years ago. I never did anything with it, but the name never left me. When I was trying to think of a title for this short call-to-action essay, I couldn’t think of a more fitting [...]
Today, I say, “I will claim this place as my home.” We assert ourselves to be members of an evolving force, a process of urban change and progress – the self-evident resolve of transformation. In our attempt to become active participants in something greater, larger, and more sublime, we’ve often projected those positive attributes onto [...]
This week a couple of us here at Saving Cities attended the 3rd Annual Rust Belt to Artist Belt Conference. The event took place, for the first time, in Detroit, and was hosted at the very lovely College for Creative Studies. And while the event was well organized, and the location was very cool, I [...]
I began my tour as almost any tour of the Buffalo area begins – with a quick stop at Niagara Falls, just a 20-minute drive up the I-190. While I’m always excited to show visitors my favorite spots in the actual city of Buffalo, the Falls is something that most do not want to miss. [...]
St. Louis has, like many others, been the story of those that left. The difference is, we built a monument. Yes, we’re that Rust Belt city that everyone seems to have forgotten – that industrial cosmopolis that had rivers instead of lakes. My name is RJ Koscielniak and I will be providing some perspective on [...]
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