Title & Author:

Your town : Mississippi Delta / Shelley S. Mastran, editor.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : National Endowment for the Arts : Distributed by Princeton Architectural Press, ©2002.

Description:

50 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Series:

NEA series on design

Notes:
Reports on a special workshop session of Your Town: Designing Its Future, which focused on planning and design for rural African American communities of the Mississippi Delta; held Nov. 12-14, 2000, in Cleveland, Miss.
Your Town: Mississippi Delta / Shelley S. Mastran -- Invisibility on the Land: A Perspective on African American Culture / Craig Barton -- Our African American Communities: The Forces at Work / William M. Harris FAICP, Ph. D.-- Planning the Workshop / Shannon Criss -- Case Study: Highway through the Mississippi Delta / Shannon Criss and Shelley S. Mastran -- Port Gibson Main Street Program / Al Hollingsworth -- Case Study: Mound Bayou, Mississippi / Shannon Criss and Shelley S. Mastran.
Also available via Internet from the NEA web site.

Summary:

Since the late 1990s, the National Endowment for the Arts, under the direction of Mark Robbins, has been promoting design excellence through an ambitious series of symposia, best-case design studies, and prototype projects. The results of these programs are now documented in a new series of publications, each focusing on design in the public realm and the potential for innovative architecture, landscape architecture, and planning.
Describes the impact of design and heritage tourism on rural community development.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
connect to online version. (PDF)

ISBN:

1568983751
9781568983752

Subject:

Regional planning Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
Rural development Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
African Americans Housing Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
African Americans Race identity Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
Community life Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
Heritage tourism Mississippi Delta (Region) Congresses.
Aménagement du territoire Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
Développement rural Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
Noirs américains Logement Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
Noirs américains Identité ethnique Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
Communauté Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
Tourisme culturel Mississippi Delta, Région du Congrès.
African Americans Housing
African Americans Race identity
Community life
Heritage tourism
Regional planning
Rural development
Mississippi Delta (Region)

Form/genre:

Congresses.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Mastran, Shelley Smith.
Your Town--Designing Its Future (Project)
National Endowment for the Arts.
Delta State University (Cleveland, Miss.). Center for Community Development.
NEA series on design.

Mississippi Delta

Holdings:

Location: Library main 224326
Call No.: HT393.M7 Y6 2002
Status: Available