Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...too. We joined efforts. They brought design and carpentry skills, and I had an existing building that would serve as a fine henhouse. Since 2004, we have shared the costs,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...challenge to the incumbent school board members and the existing consensus (xiv). Map illustrating the percentage of Non-Hispanic White populations in Wake County Subdivisions, 2009. Map courtesy of the author....
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...and local bureaucracies, which imposed a legal structure for marriage on existing relationships that fit poorly with the diversity of living arrangements men and women had taken on, but provided...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...tortuous at worst. High mountain terrain, twenty-six tunnels, weather, and an existing landscape that often had to be made "scenic" presented challenging and ongoing obstacles to the engineers, architects, and...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...as well educated, wealthy, and professional to disprove existing stereotypes, and differentiate the Florida migrants from earlier waves of Puerto Ricans that arrived in northern cities. These efforts become evident...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...as a pocket park for the memorial. The site features a few small trees, an existing large oak tree, and lawn grass traversed by a walkway. The marker reads: Largest...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...welcome improvement. Unfortunately, ICE raids at workplaces have been replaced with beefed-up audits and record-checking procedures that often result in mass firings of immigrant workers. Meanwhile, through other programs of...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...included not only experiments with plant breeding and food preservation, but also solar and methane energy production. We took away a feeling that true exchange had taken place, and that...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...