No, this is not Andy Warhol describing Pittsburgh, but its close.
This description comes from Georg Friedrich Rebmann writing in 1795 about the city of Nürnberg. He has the attitude that most Central Europeans had about Albrecht Dürer--it had declined massively since the glory days of the fifteenth century. The usual explanation given by historians--the ruling patriarchs took on massive debts that they could not pay off, the city stagnated, old rules were never modernized.
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