Spiritual America

Alfred Stieglitz Spiritual America, 1923 Gelatin silver print 11.6 x 9.2 cm

THE WANDERING

THE WANDERING 48 Bill Rankin, 2010

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THE WANDERING

THE WANDERING 48 Bill Rankin, 2010

Psychogeographic Zones of New Orleans

This material was first published in the spring of 2005, four months before hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and made it the center of national attention. "A major hurricane in an urban area like New Orleans brings with it a lot of attention, especially to our understanding of how cities work. As New Orleans is rebuilt, the slow forces that normally guide the evolution of an urban environment will be dramatically amplified and focused into a short period of time. But I expect that the rebuilding will follow some basic trends which were already in place prior to hurricane Katrina. " "The two most common nicknames for New Orleans are “The Crescent City” and “The Big Easy”. The Crescent City refers to the shape of the old part of the city, built along a curve in the Mississippi river. This shape has reached iconographic status in the form of a crescent moon and stars, shown on the sides of police cars and taxicabs. A more poetic version of this symbolism, showing a crescent moon emitting linear rays onto a field of stars, can be seen on the water-meter covers which dot the sidewalks all over town.

"But what about “The Big Easy”? I asked a former professor of mine, a graduate of Tulane Medical School, about the origin of this nickname. He replied: “Well, I can’t really explain it, but it just makes sense. You’ll see when you get there, things just sort of have an easy way about them.” Another old professor also lived in New Orleans in the early 1960s, and he remembers two other nicknames for the city in addition to “Crescent City” and “The Big Easy”: “The City that Care Forgot” “The City that Sin Forgot” He claims that these names could be seen on public signs around town. When he told me about these names, I was on a cell phone and I misheard the names as: “The City that Care For God” “The City that Sinned For God” "

SCRATCH ATLASES

of the Society for the North American Cultural Survey 1974 (Volume 1)1977 (Volume 2) These Scratch Atlases were working documents for a proposed Altas of North American Cultures.

A loose-leaf collection of xerox copies of almost 2,200 maps from books, articles, and manuscript files, they represent a survey of the scholarly literature on cultural geography circa 1977.

These atlases (which are for download both ) were individually copied and distributed to interested geographers for their personal use. The atlases were never meant to be published, cited, or deposited in libraries or bookstores.

The fruits of the Survey were eventually published as This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures, John Rooney, Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean Louder, general editors (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1982). via radicalcartography

HATE MAPS

Active U.S. Hate Groups Map in 2005. All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.

The MAP shows each state hatred distribution.

The map, the most popular feature on the Center's website, identifies 762 active groups in 2004. While that number represents only a slight increase over the 751 groups identified in 2003, it continues an upward trend in the number of U.S. hate groups, according to Intelligence Project director Mark Potok. read more

Mapping Radio stations

This interactive map shows what’s playing on radio stations around the country(USA).

YES makes radio and TV interactive and social. On the homepage you see the 100 most popular songs as voted by the audience of the nation's top 2,600 Radio and virtually all Music TV Stations. via http://randomwalks.com/