Daytonology
Blog URL http://daytonology.blogspot.com/
Tags Geography, History, Economics, Social Issues, Urban affairs, Architecture, Planning, Urban Design
Urbanist blog focusing on Dayton and vicinity. Topics are urban and suburban form,regional & urban geography, history, economy and socio-econmic issues.
Latest Blog Posts
- Daytonology Two Year Anniversary on Jul 23, 2009
Back in January there was this post, announcing yer humble hosts impending departure from Dayton and the closure of this blog.The move is on hiatus due to the dire job situation but the blog is done. Daytonology has been running on empty for quite a...
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- Mock Turtle Press on Jul 19, 2009
More signs of life in the dying city.Stopping by Jazzy Java Cafe I happened across a basket of little chapbooks with a donation can. Entitled "Collage" this is a collection of stories. The one bought was "short stories by Dayton authors". So it s...
- The Dayton Daily News Beats the Creative Class Drum on Jul 19, 2009
Daytonology has done some desultory blogging about Richard Florida's Creative Class concept and the local attempt at doing Creative Class things, the Dayton Create initiative. But not too much because yer humble host isn't part of this class, or cate...
- Urban Bohemia and Left Wing Political Style on Jul 19, 2009
Stadt luft macht frei, City air makes one free.This old German saying, perhaps coming from the Middle Ages or Renaissance, could be the theme of a cultural tendancy of modern America, too, as it is so contrary to the American ethos, which is, at hea...
- The Space Race is Over on Jul 19, 2009
Since this is the 40th anniversary of the first men on the moon, a good song on the subject, sort of, by UK folk-rocker Billy Bragg. Bragg was a fan of Simon and Garfunkle as a teen before going through the "cleansing fire of punk" (as he says) and...
- Building Xenia Junction. on Jul 18, 2009
Xenia developed into one of Ohio’s railroad towns, a species of place that had some importance to railroading due to repair facilities and as a junction point for the railroads that criss-crossed Ohio during this era. On the map this looks quite co...
