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Dear colleagues, Plese consider the following monograph for your collection! Where Poplar Crosses Cotton: Interpreting the Urban Landscape in Macon, Georgia, by Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture, Urbanism and American Studies at Yale University. College Park, Md.: Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, c2007. -- ISBN Number 0-913749-52-5 To order, send a $15 check payable to “Urban Studies and Planning Program” to: Urban Studies and Planning Program School of Architecture Planning and Preservation University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-9150 The University of Maryland’s Urban Studies and Planning Program is pleased to offer this new monograph by Dolores Hayden, the Samuel J. LeFrak Lecturer at the University of Maryland in spring 2006. Dolores Hayden has written extensively on the history of American urban landscapes and the politics of design. Among her recent works are A Field Guide to Sprawl (W.W. Norton, 2004) and Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820 to 2000 (Pantheon, 2003). In this monograph, Professor Hayden reviews the economic geography of Macon, Georgia, since the early 1800s and provides lively profiles of people who worked in that changing economic and spatial landscape. As part of the Samuel J. LeFrak Lecture and monograph series Professor Hayden led an afternoon seminar and delivered a formal evening lecture On April 18, 2006. She discussed her recent research on the shifting historical interplay between economic activity and physical design, and their profound connections to issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity in Macon, Georgia. She writes in the monograph’s introduction: Planners and preservationists thinking about the center of a small city like this one confront difficult questions. What parts of this racially divided town should be remembered and interpreted? What histories of livelihood in this landscape would be welcome? What memories of place – from the earliest settlements in the landscape to the present – could help hold the center? As founder and president of The Power of Place -- a non-profit arts and humanities group based in Los Angeles -- Professor Hayden created a downtown itinerary to celebrate the ethnic diversity of the and historic landscapes of the city’s center from 1984 to 1991. She documented this work in The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (The MIT Press, 1995). Patricia Kosco Cossard, M.A., M.L.S. Subject Librarian for Architecture and Historic Preservation University of Maryland Libraries College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-6316 office (301) 314-9583 fax [log in to unmask]