The tower sits on an octagon of red brick, a riveted steel drum shedding white paint in long rust tears. At its foot, a big
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Come around the bend on the ramp below East Pittsburgh at sunrise and the George Westinghouse Bridge fills the windshield like a stage set. Five
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Ninety Seconds Up Yoder Hill
The Johnstown Inclined Plane, Johnstown, Pennsylvania The view on the cover comes at the end of the ride. Downtown sits spread across the valley floor:
A Reason for the Curve: The Eisenhower Boulevard Bridge Cross the Stonycreek on Eisenhower Boulevard, where Ferndale hands you off to Riverside, and you pass
A Proposal for Johnstown, Pennsylvania Bright Meadow Group is bringing forward a high-leverage opportunity for the City of Johnstown: an attraction that does not exist
A Love Letter in Iron Money, and the Highway That Tore the Envelope If you’ve driven down Menoher Boulevard into Johnstown, you’ve passed it —
Lately I’ve been looking more closely at civic buildings. Not the flashy ones designed to impress tourists, but the quieter ones—the buildings that were constructed
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Distributed Intelligence Infrastructure
A Bright Meadow Group Framework for Modular AI & Municipal Compute Executive Premise Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming foundational infrastructure.Its computational backbone—data centers—now shapes energy
A Stone Amplifier from the New Deal Era In Roxbury Park, on the western edge of Johnstown’s urban basin, sits one of the most unusual
There is something about civic buildings that has always stopped me in my tracks. I can drive past a strip mall without noticing it. A