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Joseph L. Scarpaci is professor of geography at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and author of Barrios and Plazas: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Spanish Amiercan Centro Histórico.
Pittsburgh and the Appalachians profiles the city and its
hinterland to assess what they have, and what they will need, to
achieve a fresh and vigorous future. Once gateway to the West, then
keystone city for American heavy industry, Pittsburgh, with its
region, became a cruel postindustrial economic and environmental
joke. Yet when viewed in contemporary perspective, unique urban and
regional characteristics of people and place, from creative forces
at the core to recreational resources across the region, provide
energy, opportunity, and possibility. Scholarly and readable, this
book captures Pittsburgh's promise and serves as a model for how
geographers can look at and think about effects of urban,
metropolitan, and regional restructuring and reshuffling in the
twenty-first century.-- "Joseph S. Wood, University of Southern
Maine"
During the industrial age, coal was king, steel and other mills
dominated the economic landscape, and immigrants created
distinctive neighborhoods. Pittsburgh and the Appalachians analyzes
the transition to the landscape of the information age, facilitated
by planning, community organizations, and private-public
partnerships, where creative people are the most important factor
of production and universities and cultural and environmental
resources are critical to growth.-- "Ruth I. Shirey, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania"
This volume will be of interest to scholars and a wider readesrhip
interested in the region and/or in the challenges of the shifting
economic and social realities of the eraly 21st century.
Recommended.-- "Choice"
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