Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 22 2001

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 22 2001

Message from the editor.
September 22, 2001... In November 2001 the administration of Bowling Green State University made the decision to close Popular Press as of June 30, 2002. Just prior to that decision we had approached the press to ask to take over publication of the Journal of...

Main street versus riverboat gambling: "sinking" the boat in Madison, Indiana.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT. In June of 1993 the state of Indiana legalized riverboat gambling and made available 11 licenses to gambling operations. Unlike other states, Indiana required that county referendums be held prior to the development of riverboat...

Town site evolution in Southwestern Michigan: 1830-1869.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT. A study of original survey records of town plats in three southwestern Michigan counties shows that a wide range of town and town-square designs were in use. This is particularly impressive because so many of these towns were laid out...

"Energizing" rural space: the representation of countryside culture as an economic development strategy.
September 22, 2001... Rural America is in trouble. It is losing jobs, it is losing people; it is losing its identity--W. Falk and T. Lyson (1) We live in a culture in which everything that starts out original turns into a theme park.--T. Gitlin (2) ...

Traditional Chinese site selection--Feng Shui: an evolutionary/ecological perspective.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT. Feng Shui has endured as an art of site selection in East Asia for more than 3,000 years and still remains popular in Chinese societies. It may have positive values for human welfare. This paper argues that Feng Shui has evolutionary...

Topomystica: investigation into the concept of mystic place.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT. Human experience of place can be conceived of as both an "objective reality" and a "lived experience." A more spiritual view of the earth has been advocated by some geographers, but relatively little attention has been given to mystic...

American Indians and National Parks.
September 22, 2001... By Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1998. List of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, list of abbreviations, sources, notes, and index. xxii+319 pp. $40.00 cloth. In atlases of the United...

The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West.
September 22, 2001... By Valerie L. Kuletz. New York: Routledge, 1998. List of illustrations, legend of map symbols, list of acronyms, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. xxiii+336 pp. $22.99 paper. The terrible human and environmental...

Heritage on Stage.
September 22, 2001... By Steven D. Hoelscher. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. Illustrations, tables, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xix+327 pp. $24.95 paper. As one travels through the countryside of the United States it is...

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada.
September 22, 2001... Edited by William G. Dean, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Publisher's note, preface, acknowledgments, notes, and sources, iii+180 pp. $85.00 cloth. As the title suggests, this new atlas is a collection of 67 double page...

Third World Political Ecology.
September 22, 2001... By Raymond L. Bryant and Sinead Bailey. New York: Routledge, 1997. Illustrations, preface, guide to further reading, bibliography, and index, xii + 237 pp. $22.99 paper. Third World Political Ecology provides a comprehensive review of the...

Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition.
September 22, 2001... Edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema. New York, Routledge, 1998. Acknowledgments, bibliography, contributors, and index. i+294 pp. $21.99 paper. This edited volume presents scholarship with a purpose. As the title suggests, the book...

Wisconsin Revisited.
September 22, 2001... By Nicolette Bromberg. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1998. 80 pp. $20.00 paper This book, a product of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, is the culmination of a project that began in 1995, to celebrate the...

Race, Place, and the Law: 1836-1948.
September 22, 2001... By David Delaney. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998. Preface, notes, bibliography, and index, x+229 pp. $17.95 paper. Challenging in its understanding of the geopolitics of race in America and intriguing in its analysis of legal...

The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth.
September 22, 2001... By Blake Gumprecht. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Acknowledgments, notes, and index, x+369 pp. $39.95 hardcover. Exhaustively researched, Blake Gumprecht's very readable book, The Los Angeles River, is destined to...

Interface Culture: How Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate.
September 22, 2001... By Steven Johnson. New York: Basic Books, 1997. Preface, conclusion, notes, acknowledgments, and index. 264 pp. $13.00 paper This book explores the myriad impacts of digital information technology on Western culture. The author declares...

Enlightenment and Exploration in the North Pacific: 1741-1805.
September 22, 2001... Edited by Stephen Haycox, James Barnett, and Caedmon Liburd. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. Preface, introduction, notes, contribution, and index, xii+207 pp. $19.95 paper. European exploration of the North Pacific...

Rituals of Respect: the Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes.
September 22, 2001... By Inge Bolin. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1998. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index, xx+289 pp. $16.95 paper. Rituals of Respect: The Secret of Survival in the High Peruvian Andes by Inge Bolin is...

Across Before Columbus?
September 22, 2001... Edited by Donald Gilmore and Linda McElroy. Edgecomb, Maine: The New England Antiquities Research Association, 1998. Acknowledgments, contributor biographic notes, and index, vi +313 pp. $26.00 paper. This volume of papers originated from...

Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space and Identity.
September 22, 2001... Edited by John Bale and Chris Philo. New York: Routledge, 1998. Figures, contributors, and index, xi + 166 pp. $75.00 hardback. Body Cultures seeks to introduce the highly original work of the German scholar Henning Eichberg on various...

The Southwest in American Literature and Art: The Rise of a Desert Aesthetic.
September 22, 2001... By David W. Teague. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1997. Illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, and index, x + 170 pp. $19.95 paper. For over a decade geographers, anthropologists, historians, and literary...