The steel mills are gone and Pittsburgh, like New York City, is being reinvented as a high tech city after many painful decades of job loss.
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If things go to plan, Skolkovo, near Moscow, will be one of the world's biggest high-tech cities in a few years.
An article in Popular Science magazine in 2005, for example, rated New York 39th among high-tech cities, behind Milwaukee (31st).
The digital economy, centered in a few high-tech cities, has left rural America behind, but it does not need to be this way.
When it comes to high-tech, cities and regions have spent decades tripping over themselves to become the next Silicon Valley.
The streets are similarly largely empty in the experimental high-tech cities of Songdo, South Korea; Masdar City, Abu Dhabi; and Paredes, Portugal, which are being designed to have minimal impact on the environment and offer high-tech conveniences such as solar-powered air-conditioning and pneumatic waste disposal systems instead of garbage trucks.
Highly skilled workers congregate in high-tech cities like San Jose, Calif., where families earn a median $103,164 annually.
Your hometown might be part of a growing trend of high-tech cities.
The videotape was surprisingly amateurish, here in this high-tech city-state of four million people and mixed religions -- grainy and blurring in and out of focus.
