Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
I didnt say industry as a whole, I said the auto industry, who's life blood is in Detroit, who was directly impacted by the crash.
The steel industry went through a massive collapse in the 1970s, and Pittsburgh was built on the steel industry. It was very similar to Detroit, and has also been under Democratic mayoral leadership for even longer. In the 1980s and 1990s, they also lost their top four corporate companies and about half their population, as well as the most educated.
Today, they have no steel mills left at all - but still didn't file bankruptcy, even though they went through the same Great Recession as everyone else.
What they did was raze a steel mill site, and built the Pittsburgh Technology Center. It is considered to be one of the World's Most Livable Cities.