2024 01 29

Downtown Pittsburgh’s PPG Tower. November, 2023. © Clayton Hauck

Pittsburgh is one of my favorite places. I fell in love immediately after my first visit as a young kid who loved Sim City, entering on a road trip to New Jersey with my family, emerging from a Turnpike tunnel as the skyline comes into view across the river with bridges lining the horizon in each direction. It really is an epic visual.

In November, I drove out to New Jersey again for a family visit and stopped in Pittsburgh for the night to do a bit of exploring.

On the subject of Pittsburgh and Sim City, there’s a guy recreating the city within the game Cities: Skylines, which is both an amazing game and remarkable project which checks all the boxes of my nerdiness. Check it out (a recent video linked below) if you love cities and transit and simulations and Pittsburgh and Cities: Skylines like I do! 😛

-Clayton