Tag: Clairton
- Without Walls

London to Pittsburgh: The Politics and Beauty of Polluted Skies
Reid Frazier traces the history of improvement efforts and intermittent crises affecting Pittsburgh’s air quality and asks how they will shape the city’s economic identity in the 21st century.
- Envisioning Appalachia

American Dream Sequence: Left Behind in the Monongahela River Valley
In the Monongahela River Valley, former mill towns exist at a remove from Pittsburgh’s current economic renaissance.
- Envisioning Appalachia

Between Truth and Fiction: Pittsburgh’s Burden of Identity
Matthew Newton considers Pittsburgh's industrial past, and how that has legacy has shaped the city's identity over the last four decades.
- Photo Essay

Bearing Witness to the Boom and Bust in Pennsylvania’s Mill Towns
Photojournalist Stephanie Strasburg explores present-day realities in the mill towns that dot the Monongahela and Allegheny River Valleys.