Formative 5: Mayoral imagination, big-city transformation (with Tom Murphy, John Carroll University ‘67)
Oct 7, 2022 ·
39m 3s
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When Tom Murphy, class of 1967 at John Carroll University, won the Pittsburgh mayor’s office in the early 1990s, cities in general – and the Steel City in particular –...
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When Tom Murphy, class of 1967 at John Carroll University, won the Pittsburgh mayor’s office in the early 1990s, cities in general – and the Steel City in particular – were in rough shape. Pittsburgh had seen its population sawed in half, the byproduct of industrial decline and economic blight. The son of a mill worker, Murphy knew this working-class legacy well, even as he battled to implement a vision for tomorrow’s jobs, knowing that those of his father’s generation were probably not coming back. In episode 5 of Formative, we talk about the importance of risk and guts when leadership has to steer people through their fear of change, why crime will never be an issue that policing alone can solve, and what brings him hope and joy in these inspirational tableaus of collectivity that we call cities.
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