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Cisco Trash Map
Places Journal
On railroads, oil rigs, uranium mines, 7-11 pizzas, Thelma and Louise, ruination, salvage, and the limits of the garbage gaze.
A Map of Radical Bewilderment
Places Journal
Forget his reputation as a nature writer. Henry David Thoreau was also a highly trained, well regarded, disciplined though eccentric land surveyor.
The Land Where Birds Are Grown
Places Journal
A visit to the engineered wetlands of California’s intensively cultivated Central Valley.
Privatizing the Public City
Places Journal
A walk across downtown Oakland reveals the city’s lopsided boom.