Recently added articles from The Geographical Review:
Ambidextrous Dallas.(Geographic overview)
Oct 01, 2009; ... For a century and more, Dallas, Texas has been a right-hander--and a powerful one, hitting balls farther and farther as the years have gone by. Herman Brosius's 1872 bird's-eye view of Dallas shows a toddler, population 3,000, along the east bank of the Trinity River. The city's streets ...
Brazilian immigration to the United States and the geographical imagination.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Humans conjure up powerful images of places--that is, the geographical imagination--as John Kirtland Wright ([1947] 1966), Yi-Fu Tuan (1976), and other geographers have discussed; and, according to Denis Cosgrove, the geographical imagination is "part of the common experience of man" ...
Livestock versus "wild beasts": contradictions in the natural patrimonialization of the pyrenees.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... In the twenty-first century wolves and bears have returned to the Pyrenees. The state carefully manages several populations of wild ungulates. Decades after the last sightings, otters and vultures are showing up in Pyrenean rivers and skies. In these mountains the increased presence of ...
Overcoming the apartheid legacy in cape town schools.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Apartheid, once described as "the most ambitious contemporary exercise in applied geography" (Smith 1982,1), shaped South Africa's social, economic, and political geography to an extent more usually associated with the command economies of former communist countries. The maintenance and ...
The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund: transcendental rescue in a modern city, 1900-1915.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... In the summer of 1901 the Toronto Daily Star reporter Madge Merton showed her readers how Toronto's other half were coping with the latest heat wave. Throughout poor neighborhoods "the sun [beats] upon unprotected windows, in little rooms ... where there are no means for keeping food cool; ...