Welcome to Composing McKeesport. A portion of McKeesport, Pa.'s history and a story of its current development efforts are told here as part of a project for Composing Digital Media, a course led by Professor Ali Patterson at the University of Pittsburgh.
What are they meant to be? A good place to live? To reside and bring your family? Should they still serve this function. This has to be integrated with an area where people will be able to work or they will go elsewhere. So there is a path, but it is a very different path from strictly building heavy industry.
— Chris Briem, regional economist form the University Center for Social and Urban Research