THE RURBAN FRINGE

Highways and Byways

Within our region, there are a few communities experiencing the impacts of highway bypass development.
Yet in many urban fringe and rurban areas, highway construction activities are important to communities both because of the investment they represent and the changes they trigger.  And while such activities often relieve traffic congestion, shorten travel times, and provide new [...]

Living Backwards

Are you a heyoka?
The Lakota tradition of the heyoka – a contrarian or ’sacred clown’ – fits in well with the concept of community-building, as heyokas were those in the tribe charged with challenging people’s thinking and shaking up the status quo.
At a sundance, a heyoka might dance backwards around the young men, or sashay [...]