"What's he doing?" "Same as he always does. Just looking around. He's been doing it for donkey's years." "What? What does that even mean?" "Sorry, it's a British expression. Anyway, he started doing it for a living back in 1968."
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This is a rewrite of a paper read ten years ago at the Delhi meeting of the Indian Society of Landscape Architects. The original version was posted here on Nov 14, 2018.By Bret Wallach
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You Can't Always Get What You Want, But... (Yucatan)
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Merida, Uxmal, Kabah, Hormiguero, Chicanna, Began, Xpujil, Calakmul, and Campeche. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach
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For Richer and for Poorer, Take Two (Buddhist Andhra Pradesh)
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Vijayawada, Amaravati, Ghantasala, Machilipatnam, Guntupalli, Undavalli, Nagarjunakonda, Panigiri, Jaggaiahpet, Chennai government museum, and Hyderabad. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach
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Eyes Wide Open (Virginia CIty, Nevada)
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For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784By Bret Wallach
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Lima, Arequipa, Mollendo, Puno and Pomata, Trujillo (Huaca de la Luna, Chanchan) Huaca de la Cao Viejo), Chimbote (Caral and Cerro Sechin), Chiclayo (Chotuna, Tucume, and Huaca Rajada). For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For pictures, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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What Did She Say? A Symbol of What? (Cauvery Delta)
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Jambukeswara and Mangalyeswarar temples near Trichy, the Brihadeshwarar temple near Thanjavur, the Airavateswarar, Nageswarar, and Adi Kumbeswaram temples at Tanjore, the Gangaikondcholapuram and Malakadambur temples en route to Chidambaram, and the Nataraja temple at Chidambaram. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For picture…
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Happier than Leona Could Imagine (Zimbabwe)
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Khami Ruins, Danangombe (Dhlodhlo), Nalatale, and Mapungubwe For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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For a transcript see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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The Places Where We Belong (Australia)
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Sydney, Adelaide, north to Broken Hill, Broken Hill, and Uluru. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784\ For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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People Once Created Natural Places (Zimbabwe)
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Harare, Chivhu, Masvingo, and Great Zimbabwe. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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We Reach Out from our Engineered World to Touch Things that Remind Us of Where We Belong (Glasgow and Transylvania)
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Scotland (Glasgow) and Romania (Sibiu, Vallea Viilor, Alma Vii, and Viscri). For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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The Pitiful Parent of the World Heritage Program (Israel and the West Bank)
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Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Battir, and Hebron. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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Find a Place Where You Belong, and You'll Remember What You Really Want (India)
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Ananta, Aurangabad, Khuldabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bishnupur. For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/1970784. For pictures, see greatmirror.com. For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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Stubborn Cusses (Pohnpei, Micronesia)
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For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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For a transcript, see https://www.buzzsprout.com/197078 For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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The text here appears in A Sense of Place, a collection of the papers presented at the 2014 annual meeting of the Indian Society of Landscape Architects. Later, I used the title for a book published by the University of Nebraska Press.By Bret Wallach
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This sketch was published as Chapter 6 of Many Wests, a collection of essays edited by David M. Wrobel and Michael C. Steiner and published by the University Press of Kansas in 1997.By Bret Wallach
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This paper was read at the annual meeting in 1995 of the Association of American Geographers. For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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Maine's St. John Valley in the 1970s (1991)
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This is the first chapter of At Odds With Progress (University of Arizona Press, 1991). The published chapter title was "Potato Snows." For photos, see greatmirror.comBy Bret Wallach
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A Homestead in the Canadian Rockies (1988)
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This episode was originally published in the Fall, 1988, issue of Focus, a journal of the American Geographical Society. Clara Dodgson Millner, here called Granny, died in 2004 at age 101.By Bret Wallach
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