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Michael Dear examines the history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, from the first commission formed to map and delineate the physical border to the border fences constructed in recent decades as a response to illegal immigration and fears of terror threats. He considers this place in between two nations to be its own third country, which he calls Bajalta, where the border isn't a division but the connective membrane of the borderlands.

The terrifying and shameful images of Katrina and its aftermath are rapidly being replaced by "authorized" versions that sanitize, allocate blame, and create false heroes. This essay memorializes the victims by retrieving one almost lost image that truly commemorates the human suffering and criminal neglect that contributed to this enduring stain on a nation's conscience.

Until very recently, debates about urban structure have been dominated by the precepts of the 'Chicago School,' which include the notion that the city is a coherent regional system where the center organizes its hinterland. The rise of an 'LA School' reverses this logic, insisting that in contemporary cities the hinterlands organize what is left of the center. This essay begins to explore the divergent theoretical and empirical consequences following upon such a conceptual upheaval. By placing Chicago alongside Los Angeles, an important and long‐overdue debate on comparative urban analysis is joined.