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.Kevin J. Patrick is associate professor of geography and planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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 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.Kevin J. Patrick is associate professor of geography and planning at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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.