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Geography July 16, 2019

The Paradox of Preservation

Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore

Laura Alice Watt

Hosted by Peter Ekman
“Wilderness,” “nature,” and their “preservation” are concepts basic to how the National Park Service organizes our relationship to American land. They are also contested concepts, geographer and environmental historian Laura …
Geography May 20, 2019

Transit Life

How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities

David Bissell

Hosted by Peter Ekman
What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become? In Transit Life …
Geography March 1, 2019

Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491)

Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence

Chet Van Duzer

Hosted by Peter Ekman
Chet Van Duzer, an accomplished historian of cartography, trains his sight in this book on one uniquely important map produced in early modern Europe. The 1491 world map by Henricus …
Geography February 1, 2019

Ideals of the Body

Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris

Sun-Young Park

Hosted by Peter Ekman
We know quite a bit about the physical signatures of urban “modernity” foisted upon Paris by Baron Haussmann in the late nineteenth century — the broad boulevards, networked infrastructures, connected …
Geography June 20, 2018

The Geography of the Everyday

Toward an Understanding of the Given

Rob Sullivan

Hosted by Peter Ekman
How to theorize what goes without saying? In The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given (University of Georgia Press, 2017), Rob Sullivan develops a general theory …
Geography May 4, 2018

Curated Decay

Heritage Beyond Saving

Caitlin DeSilvey

Hosted by Peter Ekman
In Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), geographer Caitlin DeSilvey offers a set of alternatives to those who would assign a misplaced solidity to historic buildings …
Geography April 23, 2018

The Dying City

Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear

Brian Tochterman

Hosted by Peter Ekman
What does it mean to say that a city can “die”? As Brian Tochterman shows in this compelling intellectual and cultural history, motifs of imminent death—of a “Necropolis” haunting the …
Geography April 16, 2018

City Choreographer

Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America

Alison B. Hirsch

Hosted by Peter Ekman
Lawrence Halprin, one of the central figures in twentieth-century American landscape architecture, is well known to city-watchers for his work on San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square, Seattle’s Freeway Park, downtown Portland’s …