The Southwestern Geographer

The Southwestern Geographer
Journal of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers

Jeff Lash and Jennifer Speights-Binet, Editors

Geography Program
University of Houston-Clear Lake
2700 Bay Area Boulevard, Box 246
Houston, TX 77058
swgeographer@uhcl.edu

The Southwestern Geographer is a peer-reviewed journal, published annually by the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG). The journal welcomes research papers on any topic written by geographers who reside in the states that comprise SWAAG (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas), as well as research papers by scholars residing elsewhere on any topic that pertains to the geography of the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.

Guidelines for Authors

Subscription rates are $15 per year (one issue) for institutions, $7 per year for individuals, and $5 per year for students and are included in SWAAG membership fees. Payment may be made by check or money order, and should be made payable to SWAAG. New orders, renewals, inquiries, and all other correspondence should be addressed to the editor.

Editorial Board

Sara Bednarz
Texas A&M University

Anne Chin
Texas A&M University

Craig E. Colten
Louisiana State University

Kelley A. Crews-Meyer
University of Texas

Robert J. Czerniak
New Mexico State University

Fiona Davidson
University of Arkansas

Dydia Delyser
Louisiana State University

Alyson Greiner
Oklahoma State University

Steven Hoelscher
University of Texas

Kamlesh Lulla
NASA Johnson Space Center

Donald Lyons
University of North Texas

Kent Mathewson
Louisiana State University

Darrell McDonald
Stephen F. Austin University

Richard Nostrand
University of Oklahoma

Fred Shelley
University of Oklahoma

John P. Tiefenbacher
Texas State University-San Marcos

Julie A. Tuason
Texas State University-San Marcos

Leo Zonn
University of Texas

Super-sizing the Neighborhood: The McMansion Effect in Houston, Texas
H. Jason Combs

All Roads Lead to Oklahoma City: The Effects of Highway Bypasses in Oklahoma Towns
Jonathon C. Comer, G. Allen Finchum

Up and Down but Not Out: A History of the Geography Department at the University of New Mexico
Olen Paul Matthews, Bradley Cullen, and Robert Campbell

Missing a "Most Peculiar City"
A Review of Craig Colten's An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Ron Hagelman

Intraurban Mobility and Metropolitan Spatial Structure
Tae-Kyung Kim, Mark W. Horner, and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones

The Etiology of Rangeland and Degradation in Northern New Mexico: A Critique of Established Explanations
David Correia

Environmental Justice and the Spatial Distribution of Oil-related Infrastructure in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Scott A. Hemmerling and Craig E. Colten

Newcomer and Long-Term Resident Perceptions of Community in Bisbee, Arizona
Bryant Evans

Census Designated Places and Incorporated Places in Texas: A Comparative Analysis
Sally Caldwell

A History of Geography at the University of North Texas
Donald Lyons and Bill Forbes

The Spatial Relationship between Drug Possession Arrests and Residential Burglaries in Austin, Texas
Ionara DeLima and Yongmei Lu

Evolution of a Commercial Strip in a Texas-Mexico Border City: Laredo's San Antonio Highway
Michael S. Yoder

Synoptic Associations of Regional Flooding Rainstorms in Louisiana, 1911-2000
Robert A. Muller and Robert V. Rohli

Activity Theory and Local Travel Behavior: A Case Study of the Elderly in Atascosa County, Texas
Richard C. Jones

The Costs of Having a Car-Dominated Campus: The Case Study of Arkansas State University
H. Jason Combs

A History of the Department of Geography - University of Arkansas
Fiona M. Davidson, O. Orland Maxfield and Thomas O. Graff

The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas
Donald Lyons

SWT Geography: From the Texas Hill Country to International Recognition
Fred M. Shelley, Lydia Lorraine Bean, and Stephanie J. Shaw

Volume 4: 2000

Western Swing in Fort Worth: Culture Hearth of the First Alternative Country Music Form
George O. Carney

The Relationship between Brightness Values from a Nighttime Satellite Image and Texas County Population
Linda F. Prosperie and J. Ronald Eyton

The Diffusion of Exotic Game Ranching in Texas
Jeff W. Powell and Frederick A. Day

History of the Geography Department at Texas A&M University
Peter J. Hugill and Clarissa Kimber

The Southwest in the American Mind
James D. Lowry, Jr.

Temperature and Bowen Ratio Estimates over Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana
Robert V. Rohli and S.A. Hsu

Environmental Equity and Community Participation in the Evaluation and Selection of Superfund Remediation Alternatives
Stephanie Garcia

A Slightly Varnished History of the Department of Geography at the University of Oklahoma
Bret Wallach

Open Space in New Mexico: An Analysis of Land Trusts and Land-Use Regulations
John B. Wright and Robert J. Czerniak

Challenging Regional Stereotypes: The Case of Northern Mexico
William E. Doolittle

The Impact of Place and Latino Ethnicity upon Congressional Support for Free-Trade Extensions in the Americas
Gerald R. Webster and Christopher D. Merrett

Hazardous Wind Events in Glacier National Park
David R. Butler and Lisa M. DeChano

One Hundred Years of Sign Language on Congress Avenue
Janet Valenza

Geography at the University of Texas at Austin
Gregory Knapp

Fifty Years of Geography in the Southwest: A History of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers
Fred M. Shelley

The Persistence of a Cultural Fault Line in the Cherokee Country
John A. Milbauer

Pollen Analysis and Woodrat Middens: Re-evaluation of Quaternary Vegetation History in the American Southwest
Stephen A. Hall

Santa Fe: Thoughts on Contrivance, Commoditizatiion and Authenticity
James Ross Kimmel

Louisiana State University's Department of Geography and Anthropology: A Selective History
Kent Mathewson and Vincent J. Shoemaker