Tag: Book Review

Activism wrapped in capitalism: Josh Clark Davis on Activist Entrepreneurs in the 20th Century

.Reading time 33 minutes.

“We now know that, during the Cold War, consumerism came to be increasingly tied to American citizenship in a particularly gendered form of privatization that occasionally surfaced into public politics,” noted Elaine Lewinnek in her review essay on architecture and consumerism in the July 2017 issue of the Journal of Urban History.[1] As evidenced by […]

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The Power of Urban Improvisation: Lawrence Powell’s The Accidental City

.Reading time 19 minutes.

Famed geographer Carl Suer once wrote: “Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape the result.” To put it less eloquently, people shape the landscape through husbandry, conservation, and architecture, and the end results speak volumes. While New Orleans might not be the perfect encapsulation of such an idea, as evidenced […]

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