Yesterday the Seattle Times made mention of a new book. Ok - So? "What's so special about a new book?" you might ask.
"Seattle Geographies" is special for two reasons:
1) Call it a collection - not just a book. Sourcing opinions, questions, and answers, from across the entire UW geography department - this book digs deeper below the "top soil" of our area culture.
2) It calls attention to questions Seattle-ites have ALL thought (at one time, or another).
An excerpt from this highly interesting and most certainly successful paradoxical inquest.
"Among the paradoxes of our region:
• Seattle may have a reputation as liberal and tolerant, "but it can also be quite controlling," Brown says. For example, it has adopted stringent rules about social behavior that give police the authority to exclude people from parks if they violate rules or laws.
• The area has a long-standing fear of big government, but voters seem willing to tax themselves significantly, Morrill says.
• Though Seattle has a reputation as a high-tech mecca, one-third of the local economy is still fueled by manufacturing, notes professor William Beyers.
Topics range from the very large, such as voting patterns in presidential elections across the region, to relatively small, such as the politics of locating and building a skateboard park, and what that issue says about social and generational tensions."
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