... in the context of its policies of “suburbanization planning” that aim at integrating vast regions as metropolitan networks. In it I identify rural land-conversion mechanisms in order to elucidate China’s rapidly evolving urbanization strategies. In particular, I attend to how the rhetoric of eco-city development...

... eco-city new town satellite town urban-rural integration suburbanization ...

... This chapter is a portrait of Theodore R. Kaczynski, father of Theodore and David Kaczynski, from David’s early memories of his father while growing up in suburban Chicago until his father’s suicide in 1990. The chapter focuses on differing father-son relationships—one with an elder son...

... of “suburbanization planning” that aim at integrating vast regions as metropolitan networks. In it I identify rural land-conversion mechanisms in order to elucidate China’s rapidly evolving urbanization strategies. In particular, I attend to how the rhetoric of eco-city development rationalizes rural land transfers...

... The city’s dance scene continued to reinvent itself when John “Jellybean” Benitez left midtown discotheque Xenon to take up residency at the Funhouse, a struggling venue that attracted a suburban crowd. With Jellybean combining disco and funk classics with newer releases, the venue started...

... and suburbanization, this chapter uncovers how one of the world’s largest tax-foreclosure auctions functioned as a technology of wealth transfer. It traces its origins to a well-organized US property and states’ rights movement that aimed to privatize public land, discipline the poor, and preserve ruling elite...

... homosexuality in attacks by a broad range of cultural authorities: religious and secular, urban and suburban, scientific and industrial, highbrow and lowbrow. It also analyzes the mass media’s ridicule, stigmatization, marginalization, and censorship of crooner characters and high-pitched male vocalizing...

... Florida is home to free-ranging rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ). This chapter follows these wild animals from the national mediascape to the state legislature, from suburban enclaves and animal rescue facilities to Silver Springs State Park. Upward of 130 monkeys live along the Silver River...

... The city’s dance scene continued to reinvent itself when John “Jellybean” Benitez left midtown discotheque Xenon to take up residency at the Funhouse, a struggling venue that attracted a suburban crowd. With Jellybean combining disco and funk classics with newer releases, the venue started to attract a crowd...