Paul James Bücher

Founded on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River in 1791, Knoxville was a frontier town as well as the birthplace and first capital of Tennessee. From the postcolonial years through the Civil War and on to Knoxville's emergence as an industrial, dynamic, and thoroughly American city, downtown was where everything happened--the setting of the city's most memorable stories and legends. Spanning First and Second Creeks and connecting the river to the railroad, downtown is where Knoxvillians have built their most defining churches, opera houses, movie theaters, and hotels. Here, traditions, holidays, and the endings of wars have been celebrated; suffrage leaders exhorted politicians to pass a national amendment; conservationists planned a national park; idealistic engineers and architects of a New Deal program reimagined a multistate valley; and musicians convened to record and broadcast new forms of folk music that would be called "country." Downtown is where bizarre gunfights drew national attention and a notorious outlaw escaped from jail and rode the sheriff's horse to freedom across the Gay Street Bridge.

This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

The evolution of Ijams Nature Center reflects a rich history intertwined with ornithology and conservation, initiated by Harry Ijams and Alice Yoe Ijams. Established as a bird sanctuary, it has served as a hub for birders and nature enthusiasts for over a century. The center has hosted Girl Scouting since 1923 and played a role in creating camps in the Smokies. Harry Ijams' contributions include promoting the Smoky Mountains and establishing the first campsite on Mount LeConte, while the center has expanded to become a premier wildlife sanctuary and educational facility.

Focusing on the historical logistics of food delivery to Rome and its surrounding areas during the first century AD, this book employs contemporary supply chain modeling techniques to analyze the processes involved. It explores how these methods can illuminate the complexities of ancient food distribution, providing insights into the efficiency and organization required to sustain the city's population.