Christopher Briem
University Center for Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh 121 University Place Pittsburgh, PA 15260 phone: 412.624.5442 fax: 412.624.4810 email: cbriem@pitt.edu web: http://www.pitt.edu/~cbriem What's New:
Not So New but....:
- My June 2004 Book Review of Root Shock by Mindy Fullilove.
- It's great to see the new Children's Hospital building up, but everytime I take her by it my mother still says Goodbye, St. Francis.
- My February 2004 OP/ED : Is Downtown Dead? Hardly: with some more comments on the state of downtown Pittsburgh in the final issue of PULP magazine.
- Published: Regionalization of Globalized Innovation: Locations for advanced industrial development and disparities in participation. (Chapter 7 on Pittsburgh).
- Last May WDUQ aired an NPR documentary on the economic effects of Globalization in Pittsburgh with a few introductory comments from me actually. The show on Pittsburgh is part of their week of coverage on the effects of globalization: Global 3.0.
- Gas $3/gallon (again?)! What do high energy costs mean to Pittsburgh? see my thoughts on Energy-Burgh
- Is Joint Dead? published in the Naval Institute Proceedings: January 2004
- Clarke Thomas had an unexpected topic for his column a couple years ago.
- How long has property assessment been at the forefront of local news in Allegheny County? See the first few pages of the Jaffurs Report from 1976. If you want to see the entire report, give me a call. Not new but an old commentary is this from 2002: Groundhog Day in the Assessment Office.
 No, this is not what they did with the Zeiss Projector from Buhl Planetarium. This is in a shopping mall in Jena Germany, home of the Zeiss Company that built the projectors. Those who figured this out include Mike Madison (of Pittsburgh's Blog of Record: Pittsblog and who got the promised lunch out of the deal), also Matthew Clark and Andrew Falk. |
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