Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...hastened neighborhood change. A number of scholars have criticized New Urbanism's complicity with capital in creating exclusionary spaces and "geographies of otherness," which reinforce or replicate spatial divisions.17K. Till, "Neotraditional...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...his constitutional rights."82Brown-Nagin, 307–309. Newspaper clipping from Southern School News, Nashville, Tennessee, May 1964. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern School News Collection, Civil Rights Digital Library, University...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...and provided water and sewage (which was flushed raw into the creeks). Power plants supplied electricity to the towns and extended the grid into the country. Telephone switchboards linked the...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...(Griffin) Fife. This young artist has her B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Oklahoma State University (1963). She is now a teacher in the public schools in Dustin, Oklahoma. She...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...estate market, foreclosure, rentals)," City-Data.com, November 28, 2009, http://www.city-data.com/forum/orlando/807347-moving-kissimmee-ks-orlando-sanford-real-2.html. Kissimmee is a city in transition . . . Wikipedia says the Latino pop in Kissimmee is only 40%, I beg...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...made it outside the city. In a prelude to the expansive years, the early 1990s saw a number of national chart-climbing, "one-hit-wonder" releases from Atlanta-based or -connected artists, including D-Roc's...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...underinvest in others, such as commitments to public education, has affected the city's approach to economic development in the postindustrial era and its prospects for success as a "comeback city."1Paul...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...change their minds.71"Hard Sledding for Bankrupt City," Yearbook of the City Managers' Association 6 (1920): 85–6. In the late 1920s, the city's mayor "[threw] the town wide open" to prostitution,...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...promotional photographs. Their images depict the Ybor City Museum, a converted Cuban bakery on the grounds of Ybor City State Park. They speak to Ybor City's later role as a...