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<title>Dams Across America : Responses</title>
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<dc:creator>Design Observer Group</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-01-29T15:53:11-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Dams Across America"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[David Nye, in "Consuming Power," also emphasizes a more fundamental basis for the American relationship with dams: from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries they provided industrial-scale direct power, which had been much rarer in the mother country. The productive collision of topography and hydrology in New England remade the region's entire urban landscape into one of mill towns and the cities that channeled their production, a process of dispersed urbanization that was later repeated in the Southeast. In this context the symbolic transformation of the dam from a private construction powering a factory to a public megaproject feeding a regional network of power seems jarring, if not radical. ]]></description>
	<author>Ian Baldwin</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/dams-across-america/12547/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2010-01-29T15:53:11-05:00</dc:date>
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	<title><![CDATA[Responding to "Dams Across America"]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The dams that either no longer exist or the ones that never existed are as interesting as the ones that do exist. On the upper Delaware River, for example, is an almost spooky place where the land was depopulated in order to create the Tocks Island Dam -- which never materialized. Now it's an area of empty, decaying houses, eternally fallow fields and a sense of place that is almost ghostly. At least it was that way last time I went through there in the nineties!]]></description>
	<author>Bill Tracy</author>
	<link>http://places.designobserver.com/feature/dams-across-america/12547/#comments</link>
	<dc:date>2010-01-25T16:43:28-05:00</dc:date>
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