Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...defined by conservativism, is quite similar to other more conservative cities throughout the US South in terms of its urban planning, elites’ desire for economic growth and political power, and...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...different navigation corridors, despite the fluidity and vulnerability of its terrain. Similarly, Theriot's account suggests that what constitutes a site's situatedness—its economic linkages to other places—is always relative and embedded...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...in the Atlanta metro area, analyzing the complex mobility politics of a southern urban center. A recent New York Times article highlights similar transportation issues plaguing rural communities in Texas....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...campaigns of the 1970s and beyond (9). Dupont's work, similar to Joel Carpenter's on interwar fundamentalists and evangelicals, understands the activities of contemporary evangelicals through the lens of historical continuity,...
Early Roller Coaster Patents
...#298,710 Roller Coasting Device) describe roller coasters which are extremely similar. In both cases, the layout is a full circle, with adjacent passenger loading and unloading platforms. The platforms are...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...for many years as the heart of the Republican Party. In fact, the GOP finds itself in a position similar to the one Democrats faced the last two elections cycles,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Deal era federal food programs. Similar to the exploitative credit system that forced Black farmers to lease land and equipment from plantation owners at outrageous interest rates, access to food...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...in Congress during the last decades of the twentieth century. Home to a highly educated black middle class rooted in institutions like Howard University, DC experienced a similar urban crisis...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...and Cocker, The Colourful Mr. Eggleston. A similar quote graces the wall of the Met's exhibition: "I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that...
The Place of Appalachia
...Rates), Appalachian Regional Commission. These contrasting examples point more to class distinctions than to any absolute difference between Appalachia and large urban centers, for globalization and neoliberalism generate similarities and...