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Providing a fascinating picture of North American landscapes through space and time, this richly illustrated album of essays reveals the allure, depth, texture, and variety of current geographical tools and philosophies. Developed in celebration of the 27th Congress of the International Geographical Union and Assembly, the volume features 93 essays written by contributors who represent a wide cross-section of the field.

Wide-Angle Panoramic Views
The Namerind Continent's Euro-American Transformation, 1600-1950
Mapping the Inuit Ecumene of Arctic Canada
The Lesser Antilles: A Southern Gateway
Crossing the American Grain
Main Streets of the Sunbelt: I-10 and I-20
Route 66: Auto River of the American West
The Northern Treeline of Canada
The North American Snowline
Filters and Lenses
A Canadian Geographer's Perspective on the Canada-United States Border
Urban Expressions of Cultural Duality
The Pacific Coast Borderline and Frontier
The Overground Railroad: Central American Refugee Flows to Canada
Mauiladora: Labor-Transport Cost Substitution Along the Border
The Urban Colonias of El Paso County, Texas
The Hosmer Silt Loan in Montgomery County, Illinois, and American Farm Policy
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge: Development Symbol for Maryland's Eastern Shore
A Diary Interpretation of Place: Artist Frederic Church's Olana“MDNM”
Positives and Negatives
Bankers' Nirvana and New Calcutta: New York in the 1980s
Metropolitan Points of Power and Problems in the United States
The Unplanned Blue-Collar Suburb in Its Heyday, 1900-1940
White-collar Home-Based Work
Breadlines
Skid Row, USA: Place and Community
Strolling the Strip: Prostitution in a North American City
Technological Failures and Toxic Monuments
Hydroclimate and Water Quality of Lake Tahoe
Urban Sprawl and the Decline of the Niagara Fruit Belt
Conflict in Yosemite Valley
The Grand Canyon Geographical Suite
Double Exposures
The San Andreas Fault, Antony
The San Andreas Fault: Human Dimensions
The Meaning and the Making of Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls Gorge
Cirque and City Form Effects on Energy Distribution
Alpine Treeline in Glacier National Park, Montana
Storm Hazards along Louisiana Coastlines
Coastal Storms in North Carolina
East Asian Villages and Downtown Development
Riverside and Pullman, Illinois: 19th Century Planned Towns
Callenge Points over Historic Perservation in Florida
Since the Retreat of the Ice Sheet: A Wisconsin Wetland
The Shifting Forest Ecotone in Postglacial Northern Ontario
The "Great American Desert" and the Arid/Humid Boundary
Mudlumps
The Strait of Belle Isle: North American Nexus in Time and Space
The Grand Trunk Corridor in Ontario's Development, 1791-1986
Russian Religious Settlement along the Pacific Rim
The Moscow Connection
The Point
Birmingham, Alabama: America's Civil Rights Struggle
Space-Lapse
Pre-Columbian Alignments in the Yucatan: Edzna
Dimensional Regions of Coastal Maine
The Meridian of the Plains: A Natural Boundary in Oklahoma
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