Here are some links relevant to our class. The list will be updated as the course progresses.

Ron English Web Site

Don Mitchell's Home Page

People's Geography Project

Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies

A definition of Culture excerpted from Raymond Williams' Keywords

A Teaching and Learning Resource on Nature, Science, and Technology

Introduction: In Search of Nature by William Cronon

Contemporary Landscape Inquiry Project BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alt.Postmodern FAQ

Spectacular Nature and Sea World Links

Sea World

Sea World's Non-Profit web site

Frontline: A Whale of a Business

Landscape and Art

The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Homepage A great page with pictures and descriptions of their various projects.

Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Photographs from the Library of Congress web site.

Yes Yoko Ono at the Walker Arts Center

Sonicflux by Yoko Ono--make some art with Yoko Ono.

The Walker's page on Duchamp

Manchester

You'll note that I had no luck finding depictions of coal smoke in Manchester.

A history of Manchester.

Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester by Alan Shelston A paper concerned with the Manchester of Elizabeth Gaskell's fiction

Manchester Online

Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester An account of Manchester from Engels from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844

A Short History of Manchester's Chinatown Interesting, even it it is not necessarily relevant to our focus.

Appalachian Trail

The NPS Appalachian Trail home page.

The Appalachian Trail Conference home page including a history. This is the organization that is in charge of maintining the trail. You'll find much more information here than on the NPS page.

Cancer Alley

Did You Hear? Good News from Cancer Alley from the Cato Institute, claims that Cancer Alley is a Myth. Probably not good news from the people who live there.

Don't Drink the Water from the Austin Chronicle. Describes a film about Cancer Alley. Some interesting stuff about the visual landscape here.

Autobahn

A picture of the Autobahn

The German Autobahn Page There's lots of good stuff here, including histories and pictures (though it might help if you know a little, or actually quite a bit, of German.)

Arthur Young

Arthur Young Travels in France (1792) Looks like some excerpts from his writing.

Arthur Young Visits Celbridge 1776

Orwell and Wigan Pier

A summary of The Road to Wigan Pier

The Road to Wigan Pier according to who else but the Wigan Council. This is definately worth reading. You can also take a look at Historic Wigan, A Proud Industrial Past. You can see a picture of the Heinz factory while you learn that Wigan Means Business.

A history of Heinz.

Heterotopia

Defining Heterotopia

A summary of Foucault, Michel. “T "Text/Context of Other Space."”

Malling of America

Park Meadows Mall ahem.... Retail Resort.

Flatirons Crossing Mall ahem... Boulder themeparkized. Be sure to check out the special features and especially the stuff on Frank Verra Park

And you can visit Callison Architecture, the firm that designed the mall (along with a redesign of Ala Moana below). There's an article on the design of Flatiorns Crossing. Also be sure to check out their News and Information page for some tips on retail design (especially the articles on designing spaces to sell cosmetics, the one on the "real you", and this one).

Mall of America The "mother of them all."

West Edmonton Mall If MoA is the mother, then is this one the "Father of them all?." Be sure to check out the Facts and Figures.

Ala Moana Mall in Honolulu. The world's largest open air mall.

And of coure, our very own River Hills Mall

Buildings.com Learn some tricks of the trade.

Gender

Geography of Gender Race and Class An informative discussion of these topics by students at San Diego State University.

"Race"

The Genetic Archaeology of Race A recent article from the Atlantic Monthly.

• Does Race Exist A debate on this very question from the PBS television program Nova web site.
• Reading Genes in black and white by Chris Colin An article from Salon Magazine that discusses debates about the validity of a biological concept of race.
• Black, White, and Red All Over by Steven Pyrrho Another article from Salon magazine that relates one white male graduate student's efforts to talk about the idea of race with his classmates. This article starts to examine some of the politics of talking about the idea of race in college classrooms.
• Frontline: The Two Nations of Black America The companion to a Frontline documentary by Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the growing disparity between the Black middle class and the Black underclass. A stunning website with oodles of information about the relationship between race and class (including statistics and charts) and the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Contains transcripts of interviews with prominant Black scholars and leaders including William Julius Wilson, Jesse Jackson, and Quincy Jones among others, assorted video and sound clips, and links to other resources.
• Scratch Me, and I Bleed Champaign: Geography, Poverty and Politics in the Heart of East Central Illinois by Jonathan Sterne. Despite its slightly confusing title what you've got here is a short article on the history and geography of racial segregation in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Despite the passage of time, segregation persists.