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To the Editor: I enjoyed Carl Abbott's timely article noting the thirtieth anniversary of the demise of the Rajneesh community in central Oregon. However, as a participant in the defense [...]

The ways that historians think about literature and use literary analysis, in their own work of scholarship and synthesis, are discussed.

IN OCTOBER 1985, a four-year effort to construct an intentional community in north central Oregon collapsed in a flurry of criminal charges and arrests of its leaders, including Bhagwan Shree [...]

Multicentered metropolises, in which cities growth is decentralized and distinct geographical communities arise, have become commonplace in the Western US. Most such areas are connected through public transit and political concerns, but each center within the multicenter metropolis develops its own culture. Examples of such areas include the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Denver and Dallas. Their history, political aspects, planning, successes and failures are discussed.

TRANSFORMED: HOW OREGON'S PUBLIC HEALTH UNIVERSITY WON INDEPENDENCE AND HEALED ITSELF by William Graves Pacific University Press, Forest Grove, OR, 2017. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. 479 pages. $36.95, cloth. $24.95, [...]

Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse. By Joshua Olsen. (Washington, D.C.: ULI-the Urban Land Institute, c. 2003. Pp. xii, 442. $34.95, ISBN 0-87420-919-6.) James Rouse was one [...]

The concept of North America's Old West is incorporated into late 20th-century interpretations of a New West through its shaping of current social and cultural landscapes. Regional identifiers are redefined as topographical and economic changes shift focal points. The reinterpretation and blending of old and new concepts will continue as other changes alter North America.

GREENSCAPES: OLMSTEAD'S PACIFIC NORTHWEST by Joan Hockaday Washington State University Press, Pullman, 2009. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. 196 pages. $29.95 paper. Among northwesterners interested in urban planning and parks, the [...]

THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE NEW WEST edited by Jeff Roche foreword by David Farber University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2008. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. 396 pages. $40.00 cloth. $24.95 [...]

PORTLAND HAS BEEN the largest city in Oregon for the entire span of statehood. Throughout this same period, residents in other cities and in rural communities have resented Portland's economic [...]

VOICES FROM THE STREET: TRUTHS ABOUT HOMELESSNESS FROM SISTERS OF THE ROAD edited by Jessica Morrell Gray Sunshine Publishing, Portland, Oregon, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, index. 384 pages. $24.95 paper. Over [...]

By Robert D. Johnston Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2003. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, index. 418 pages. $35.00 cloth Robert Johnston is a passionately engaged scholar. He has discovered things [...]