Garrett Dash Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5226486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garrett Dash Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garrett Dash |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2515-6514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Communities, Complexity, and the ‘Conchoration’
Whether to treat regions as distinct, bordered entities or meshes of borderless flows has long been a debate for geographers. This paper uses the methodological and conceptual insights of network analysis to argue for an approach to regionalisation that treats them neither as perfectly enclosed nor perfectly borderless. By comparing the many contested readings of ‘community’ in geography and the social sciences to the operational definition of a …
Regional planning as cultural criticism
This paper examines the first appearance of the term ‘regional planning’ in the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929) in order to foreground the centrality of cultural criticism in the first wave of regional thinking. Through an intellectual history of the work of Benton MacKaye and Lewis Mumford, the authors of the encyclopaedia entry, it is shown that the ‘region’ served as a device for conceptually reuniting the fractured life of …
Making stories significant
This paper reflects on a digital public history project conducted by the authors in Madison, Wisconsin. It uses these reflections to show how digital methods can create new possibilities in the field of historic preservation, and to emphasise that new technology alone does not cut through old challenges relating to public engagement. The bias towards newness and fluidity in digital methods offers an instructive contrast to the bias towards perman…
Mosaic and tapestry
This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms ‘mosaic’ and ‘tapestry’ in conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic thought. The duality between a mosaic-like, discrete geography and a tapestry-like, indiscrete geography is one of the fundamental paradoxes in spatial ontology; this paper explores how this duality has configured the commitments of geography and continues to play a role in t…
A Nation of Neighborhoods
Making the single city
While historical studies of urbanisation tend to focus on the morphological and social changes of cities in transition, the very ontological status of the city itself can be historically located as an emergence dependent on specific political, cultural and technical conditions. This essay examines the attempt to create a single ‘Greater Boston’ entity at the end of the nineteenth century in response to forces which were ostensibly linking the sep…
Americans Against the City
Walking and talking through Walks and Talks
Mosaic and tapestry
This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms ‘mosaic’ and ‘tapestry’ in conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic thought. The duality between a mosaic-like, discrete geography and a tapestry-like, indiscrete geography is one of the fundamental paradoxes in spatial ontology; this paper explores how this duality has configured the commitments of geography and continues to play a role in t…
Walking and talking through Walks and Talks
Communities, Complexity, and the ‘Conchoration’
Whether to treat regions as distinct, bordered entities or meshes of borderless flows has long been a debate for geographers. This paper uses the methodological and conceptual insights of network analysis to argue for an approach to regionalisation that treats them neither as perfectly enclosed nor perfectly borderless. By comparing the many contested readings of ‘community’ in geography and the social sciences to the operational definition of a …
Americans Against the City
Making the single city
While historical studies of urbanisation tend to focus on the morphological and social changes of cities in transition, the very ontological status of the city itself can be historically located as an emergence dependent on specific political, cultural and technical conditions. This essay examines the attempt to create a single ‘Greater Boston’ entity at the end of the nineteenth century in response to forces which were ostensibly linking the sep…
Americans Against the City
Walking and talking through Walks and Talks
A Nation of Neighborhoods
Making the single city
While historical studies of urbanisation tend to focus on the morphological and social changes of cities in transition, the very ontological status of the city itself can be historically located as an emergence dependent on specific political, cultural and technical conditions. This essay examines the attempt to create a single ‘Greater Boston’ entity at the end of the nineteenth century in response to forces which were ostensibly linking the sep…
Mosaic and tapestry
This paper examines the use of the metaphorical terms ‘mosaic’ and ‘tapestry’ in conceptualizing the structure of spatial organization over more than a century of geographic thought. The duality between a mosaic-like, discrete geography and a tapestry-like, indiscrete geography is one of the fundamental paradoxes in spatial ontology; this paper explores how this duality has configured the commitments of geography and continues to play a role in t…
Regional planning as cultural criticism
This paper examines the first appearance of the term ‘regional planning’ in the 14th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1929) in order to foreground the centrality of cultural criticism in the first wave of regional thinking. Through an intellectual history of the work of Benton MacKaye and Lewis Mumford, the authors of the encyclopaedia entry, it is shown that the ‘region’ served as a device for conceptually reuniting the fractured life of …
Making stories significant
This paper reflects on a digital public history project conducted by the authors in Madison, Wisconsin. It uses these reflections to show how digital methods can create new possibilities in the field of historic preservation, and to emphasise that new technology alone does not cut through old challenges relating to public engagement. The bias towards newness and fluidity in digital methods offers an instructive contrast to the bias towards perman…
Communities, Complexity, and the ‘Conchoration’
Whether to treat regions as distinct, bordered entities or meshes of borderless flows has long been a debate for geographers. This paper uses the methodological and conceptual insights of network analysis to argue for an approach to regionalisation that treats them neither as perfectly enclosed nor perfectly borderless. By comparing the many contested readings of ‘community’ in geography and the social sciences to the operational definition of a …
Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)