Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh, PA. invites architects, engineers, designers and others to participate in an international competition to design a pedestrian bridge.

Pennsylvania considers increasing state gasoline tax to subsidize transit.

Under a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation, artists are investigating and preserving the way in which nature reclaims abandoned industrial areas.

Columbia professor Mindy Thompson Fullilove explores the painful results of post-World War II projects on African-Americans.

Former senior planner Bob Reppe has been named Pittsburgh's new city zoning administrator.

Mulugetta Birru, executive director of the Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority, comments on the recent study that shows Pennsylvania is in decline.

A proposed $3 billion, 45-mile Maglev connecting Greensburg, Monroeville, Downtown and Pittsburgh International Airport is doomed.

Bush administration plan proposing splitting up Amtrak and cutting subsidies.

Group recommends that state funds should be denied to projects that promote sprawl.

College dorms are being replaced by plush residences as collegees use private developers to build new units.

Has the Bush administration weakened clean air rules as they apply to the elderly to create a 'senior death discount'?

Neighborhood activists in Pittsburgh's Mount Washington and Duquesne Heights neighborhoods want to raise more than $1 million to integrate 4 existing parks, hillsides and greenways into a "system of green."

A pre-Civil War house built by one of the Sewickley Valley's founding families is demolished to make way for a mansion.

A zoning board has to decide if a performance is art.

A New York duo spends its weekends tracking down dead and dying commercial centers.

Suburban and rural living is not safer than living in urban areas according to a study by a University of Virginia professor.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resource rejected a call by environmental groups to delay sale of gas drilling rights.

Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy said he hopes to hire at least one developer to work on the City's "Plan C" to breathe new life into the dowdy Downtown Pittsburgh shopping district. [Link corrected]

It will soon be harder to find a bus during off hours and another fare increase is on the way, possibly to as much as $2 a ride, according to the chief of Allegheny County's Port Authority -- and you can blame it on the state.

Pittsburgh home buyers purchasing property near mass transit stations will be eligible to borrow more money under a new test program by Fannie Mae.