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Jade Sasser
On Infertile Ground Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change
A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, Ameri...
Climate anxiety and the kid question : deciding whether to have children in an uncertain future
"Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question looks at how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents--or n...
Debating Malthus : a documentary reader on population, resources, and the environment
"Does the environment pose limits to human population size and wellbeing? Or does human intelligence and resourcefulness ensure that environmental lim...
Catherine Gudis
Walking the Talk: Art, History, and the Politics of Public Participatory Memory in L.A.’s Skid Row
ZONING AND THE ROAD TO FEDERAL LEGISLATION
From the time she founded the National Roadside Council, Elizabeth Boyd
Lawton asked the fundamental question, “Why commercialize the entire
countrysi...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Nunnally reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
The Constituency Isn’t Digital: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Cultural Heritage
This thesis seeks to explore shifting paradigms in digital collections work in the twenty-first century. It puts into conversation different models of...
Review Essay: Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape: ROBERT D. BULLARD, GLENN S. JOHNSON, AND ANGEL O. TORRES, eds., Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 236, tables, notes,...
Several books are analyzed, including the following: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres' Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Plannin...
THE BILLBOARD WAR
Both the warring women, named “scenic sisters” by scornful outdoor advertisers, and their billboard “brethren” (also called “boys” and oftentimes
“bar...
Acknowledgement to referees 2022
The quality of a journal is defnitely depending on the review process. The work laid down by our reviewers is essential for the increasing interest of...
INTRODUCTION
To entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, city boosters, nature enthusiasts,
and even urban and regional planners, cars and highways were opening up t...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape.(Cultural Spaces.)
Friedman reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
NOTES
Press, 1990), 152. The jumbled message of the multilayered posters was a popular subject for engravings
in the period. See, for instance, “The Bill-Po...
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States
In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with...
No más bebés = No more babies
"The story of Mexican immigrant women who were pushed into sterilization while giving birth at L.A. County hospital during the 1970s. Alongside intrep...
A Forest of signs : art in the crisis of representation
A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broad...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. (Cultural Spaces.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. viii, 333. $22.00
THE CULTURE OF MOBILITY
The newly expanding highways were the logical place for outdoor advertising to develop since, as one industry commentator put it, the job of outdoor
a...
Catherine Gudis Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape 2004 Routledge New York viii + 333 pages, US$22 paperback
Policing Mental Health
"Last Day of Freedom" and "Code," two films that address different aspects of the intersection of mental health and law enforcement, will screen on Ju...
America's roadside reading; Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Catherine Gudis; Routledge: 334 pp., $22 Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place; John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle; University...
For most of the 20th century, America the Beautiful waged war with America the Prosperous over the issue of billboard advertising. This struggle is re...
Filipino America on the Palate: A Story of Filipinos’ Presentations of Culture Through Foodways in Urban and Suburban Los Angeles
This thesis examines the ways that Filipino restaurateurs have adjusted their presentations of culture through food in the United States from the mid-...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0, $90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $22.00 (paper)
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 2: The story so far: Mrs. Kelly's class is taking a bus tour down Wilshire Boulevard to learn about the history and architecture of the Los Angeles area: HOME EDITION
The class returned to the bus and the driver carefully steered into the traffic of Wilshire Boulevard. Cars, city buses, tow trucks, delivery vans and...
Lions & eagles & bulls : early American tavern & inn signs from the Connecticut Historical Society
"This catalogue - published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition - features works from The Connecticut Historical Society, which houses th...
THE STRIP
A constellation of factors, including the activities of the outdoor advertising
industry, laid the groundwork for the commercial strip of the postwar...
Review of Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation
By the 1960s passenger trains were in serious decline, displaced by cars, airplanes, and railroad executives more interested in the cash earned from c...
"Playa Politics: Technology, Nature, and Conflict at Southern California's Salton Sea."
When Anglo Americans first encountered Southern California’s Colorado Desert in the mid-nineteenth century, they were appalled by what they saw there....
Filipino America on the Palate : A Story of Filipinos' Presentations of Culture Through Foodways in Urban and Suburban Los Angeles
This thesis examines the ways that Filipino restaurateurs have adjusted their presentations of culture through food in the United States from the mid-...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The quote above aptly summarizes the great variety of “folk” who have helped
me with this project. I am grateful for the intellectual support provided...
Making Home Again: Japanese American Resettlement in Post-World War II Los Angeles, 1945-1955
For Japanese incarcerated during World War II, returning “home” to Los Angeles was daunting. Often, though, Nisei deliberately kept experiences from t...
Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries : Introducing the Racial Sphere Model
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Deconstructing Racial Hierarchies and Moving Beyond Binaries: Introducing the Racial Sphere Model by Carol Kwang Park...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Figures
1. Poster 14, no. 12 (1923): 34. Outdoor Advertising Association of America Archives, John W.
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Foster reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Anxious Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America
The 1920s has had a reputation as being a fallow period in the history of American urban politics, having the image of being a decade when business el...
Superoxide Dismutase Reduces the Inflammatory Response to Aspergillus and Alternaria in Human Sinonasal Epithelial Cells Derived from Patients with Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Aspergillus fumigatus and Alternaria alternata are ubiquitous environmental fungal allergens that can exacerbate airway inflammation and contribute to...
PRODUCING THE NORTH AMERICAN METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE
Seligman reviews Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta edited by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres; Buyways: Bil...
"Something Terrible Happened Here": Memory and Battlefield Preservation in the Construction of Race, Place, and Nation
This dissertation considers the changing place of race at nationally preserved battlefields from the Civil War and Indian Wars. As sites of contestati...
The Other LAPD
Based in Los Angeles’s Skid Row and comprised largely of the area’s formerly homeless, the Los Angeles Poverty Department creates performances from th...
PRODUCING MOBILE AUDIENCES AND CORRIDORS OF CONSUMPTION
Salesmen for poster advertising explained that the appeal of the poster was
its outdoors setting, where nature “puts people in a friendly, cheerful, o...
Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Interventions on the Horizon
An increased understanding of the physiology and pathogenic mechanisms leading to infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) airways has led to a number of rec...
The State of Work: Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics in the Inland Empire
“The State of Work: Transportation, Distribution, andLogistics in the Inland Empire” offers a comprehensiveexploration of the Transportation, Distribu...
BILLBOARD BARONS
While roadside reformers favored beauty over business and usually skirted the
financial implications of their choice, the organized outdoor advertisin...
Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold War
ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Los Angeles and the 1984 Olympic Games: Cultural Commodification, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Cold WarbyJosh R. Lieser...
Catherine Gudis Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape 2004 Routledge New York and London
AN ARCHITECTURE OF MOBILITY
The changed locations and relationships between buyers and sellers in the age
of mass advertising and the automobile meant that advertisers, architect...
Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape
In Buyways, Catherine Gudis focuses on the development of the outdoor advertising industry in 20th century America, and its role in the commodificatio...
East LA Interchange
"East LA Interchange tells the story of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights, the oldest neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Targeted by government po...
Cultures of commerce : representation and American business culture, 1877-1960
This anthology contributes to the scholarship occurring at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material...
THE PASTORAL VIEW
Could one justify protecting areas in Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma as easily as California’s redwood forests or Hawaii’s tropical foliage and beac...
Shaping Commemorative Imaginaries: The Case for Old Town Sacramento
This thesis explores the construction of the Old Sacramento Historic District during the post-war period. As a case study, this thesis explores how th...
Oehlen Williams 95
"The Wexner Center invited artists Albert Oehlen and Christopher Williams to assume a curatorial guise in which they selected, edited, and designed an...
VISUALIZING DISTRIBUTION
In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover announced with pride that
since the end of the Great War America’s ability to make quality goods had
rea...
BELIEFS; Students' Work Opens Doors to Culture, History; Schoolchildren research and visit eight landmark Wilshire Boulevard- area houses of worship and compile a booklet as a guide for other youths: HOME EDITION
[Catherine Gudis] visited St. Basil's with the students. There, [Jacki Breger] pointed to the abstract windows, so different from the story- telling w...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 1: HOME EDITION
"But you see only a small part of it," said [Susan]. "Wilshire starts in downtown Los Angeles, continues through Beverly Hills and ends at the ocean i...
LOSERS AND WINNERS
Though through the years the battle lines in the billboard war tended to be
drawn between aesthetics and business, the billboard advocates were not wi...
Book Reviews
Appalachian Folkways
. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, glossary, references, and index, x+353...
Carleton Watkins, Thomas Hill, and Frederick Law Olmsted : An Artist Focused Approach to Establishing an Understanding of the Burgeoning National Park System
Abstract not required for MA - Art History Thesis
THE CONSOLIDATION AND GROWTH OF NATIONAL ADVERTISING
Though national advertising campaigns began in the nineteenth century, the
advertising boom really came with the twentieth. It accompanied such phenom...
Playing in the Park: Winter Sports and Sports Spectacles in Yosemite, 1900–1950
Since its founding, the National Park Service has struggled with a dual mandate to both protect sites within its charge and provide for the enjoyment...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Catherine Gudis is an assistant professor at the University...
TRAFFIC AND TRADE: “BUYING POWER IN MOTION”
In 1924, traffic expert Miller McClintock began to wonder whether automobiles had changed markets permanently. “Stores that were once remote may
now b...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Ahlgren reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis.
Jitneys, Buses, and Public Transportation in Twentieth Century Los Angeles
This project uncovers the role of buses and their riders in shaping Los Angeles urban history in two crucial moments. First, while the private automob...
Driving consumption
Contribution to a "History and Technology" forum on Cotten Seiler's "Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America" (2008). Quest...
A NATION ON WHEELS
In the densely populated cities of the late nineteenth century, outdoor advertisers had found ample audiences of pedestrians, carriages, and trolleys...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape
Gudis, Catherine. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. (Cultural Spaces). 2004. c.304p. il...
Remembering Bell Mountain: African American Landownership and Leisure in California’s High Desert During the Jim Crow Era
This dissertation is a biography of place that tells the story of Bell Mountain, an early twentieth-century African American homesteading community lo...
The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space
As the urban environment decentralized in the 1920s and 1930s with the adoption of the car as a routine part of American life, the highway became more...
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Agnew, Hugh. Outdoor Advertising. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1938.
Alexandre, Arsène, M. H. Spielmann, H. C. Bunner, and August Jaccaci. The Modern Poster...