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Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Southern Spaces, 2006 Folklorist Nick Spitzer, host of Public Radio International’s American Routes, discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans musicians and craftspeople and argues for their central role in rebuilding the city.
Nick Spitzer
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Southern Spaces, 2005 Dr. Karyn Lacy presented "Constructing Racial Identities" at Emory University on March 2, 2005. In excerpts from her lecture, Prof. Lacy advances the idea of strategic assimilation as an way of understanding how contemporary middle-class Blacks are ...
Karyn Lacy
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Urban and suburban lifestyles and residential preferences in a highly urbanized society [PDF]
Belgeo, 2011 It is widely recognized that cities nowadays are confronted with (new) challenges like segregation and suburbanisation. This paper explores the idea that these processes are related with residential choices (or preferences) made by residents with divergent lifestyles and value patterns.
Pisman, Ann +2 more
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GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS OF THE ARGOLIS PREFECTURE.
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 2017 The application of earth science principles and techniques to the understanding of the archaeo-logical record has become a common practice, while reducing the archaeological risk is possible by clarifying areas of archaeological potential at an early stage. Towards this scope non-invasive geophysical magnetometry surveys were carried out at the city of
Zananiri, I. +4 more
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Southern Spaces, 2008 This film documents an abandoned greenhouse. Built around 1919, it became part of the Georgia Mental Health Institute (GMHI), which operated between the years 1965 and 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Matt Miller
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Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Southern Spaces, 2015 Lydia Pelot-Hobbs reviews Matt Sakakeeny's Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). Artwork by Willie Birch.
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
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Comparison of Maxillofacial Trauma Patterns in the Urban Versus Suburban Environment: A Pilot Study
Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction, 2020 Introduction: Assault appears to be the most frequent cause of facial fractures in certain urban trauma centers, possibly due to the ease of acquiring weapons and increasingly aggressive behavior. The objectives of this study were to identify specific demographic, socioeconomic, maxillofacial fracture, and assault patterns in urban versus suburban ...
Cohn, Jason E +4 more
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Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Southern Spaces, 2008 In these photographs, taken between 2005 and 2008, Amie Vanderford samples hand-painted, commercial signs in Memphis neighborhoods. Vibrant and changing markers on the cityscape, these signs situate neighborhood identity, from historically African ...
Amie Vanderford
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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Southern Spaces, 2008 This essay explores Ponce de Leon Park, a popular turn-of-the-last-century amusement park two miles east of Atlanta, through postcards, photographs, video, and historical analysis.
Sarah Toton
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Annals of Human Biology, 2017 Background: Previous studies have reported a narrowing tendency in urban–suburban rural differences for height, but almost no tendency of narrowing for weight in Chinese children between 1975–2005.
Xinnan Zong +3 more
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