There’s a tag on my blog from blogposts past:
Paper Street You can’t drive on them.
“In Pittsburgh the term “paper street” takes on a unique dual meaning. It covers both the standard legal definition of an unbuilt road and a famous piece of local infrastructure: the city’s public staircases”
Pittsburgh is know for its bridges, hills, rivers and valleys. The topography has lots of steep inclines. And City Steps!
The book I first mentioned was Bob Regan’s book with photos by Tim Fabian.
The Steps of Pittsburgh:The Story of the City’s Public Stairways. Published March 2004
Here’s a link to Pittsburgh Steps with a different cover
“Pittsburgh features 739 individual sets of public steps (accounting for 44,645 risers and 24,108 vertical feet), famously documented by geophysicist and University of Pittsburgh professor Bob Regan in his book Pittsburgh Steps: The Story of the City’s Public Stairways (and his earlier work The Steps of Pittsburgh: Portrait of a City”
A new book 2024 (Link here) by Laura Zurowski Charles Succop and Matthew Jacob includes a forward by Professor Bob Regan. Check out her instagram Mis.Steps and StoryBurgh
Some photos from my archives
