geography professor @GSUGEOS // maker of maps @mappingATL // wife guy @rachel_arney // always a Kentuckian // all opinions mine, &c. &c.
Mar 16, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Excited to be able to share my latest paper w/ @brainilliams in the Annals of the AAG, unpacking the history of Starkville, Mississippi's Cotton District, which (somewhat dubiously) claims the mantle of the first ever new urbanist development
🔗👉 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…@brainilliams The Cotton District is an illustrative case for the multiple ways that white supremacy - and particularly nostalgia for the plantation - is fundamentally intertwined with contemporary processes of city-making, and how that complicates conventional narratives about urban planning
Mar 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Y’all be sure to read @JohnRuchAtlanta’s latest piece on the secrecy and confusion around what exactly is going on with the plans for Cop City - most notably by the people responsible for promoting it saportareport.com/with-so-much-u…
In addition to the nakedly reactionary politics of policing and state repression that Cop City represents, the process around it highlights exactly the kind of "intentional opacity" I called out in a recent academic piece published in @DialoguesHG