“‘Place,’” the historian Dolores Hayden has written, “is one of the trickiest words in the English language, a suitcase so overfilled one can never shut the lid. It carries the resonance of homestead, location, and open space in the city as well as a position in a social hierarchy.” Posts in this section follow this social element of physical space, emphasizing questions of meaning and human effort in creating shared (or contested) culturally meaningful space.
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Making the Outdoors More Inclusive
America’s national and state parks have often been utilized by majority white populations. The assumption that the outdoors are a space for white, able-bodied people who have resources and time continues to influence who uses green space...