In the midst of our battle to stop the Byhalia Oil Pipeline from its proposed route atop the Memphis Sand Aquifer, founding Board members—Ward Archer and Jim Kovarik—made this video in February 2021. After a two-year tussle with billion-dollar oil interests, Byhalia pulled its permits and canceled its pipeline in July 2021. We used this […]
Steve Barlow wrote this article about how Memphis is fighting the blighting influences. Rundown: Memphis Fights Blight from Key Public Strategies on Vimeo.
The first regional URSYS workshop took place in Minneapolis from April 21 to 23 and engaged 37 researchers and community stakeholders. The workshop’s goal was to begin creating cross-disciplinary research collaborations among stakeholders in the MRB with the potential to identify themes and sites for future interdisciplinary grant proposals and projects. Participants were encouraged to […]
URSYS Steering Committee member Ulrike Passe was honored to be invited to attend the Mississippi River Summit organized by the Great Plains Action Society. The summit occurred from May 11 to 14th in the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The Great Plains Action Society organized the Mississippi River Summit to advance the leadership of […]
Iowa State University Architecture Professor Kimberly Zarecor is quoted extensively in an Aug. 20 Cedar Rapids Gazette article by reporter Tom Barton titled “Rural Iowa continues to lose population. How some small towns are working to ‘shrink smart.’“ The article was a preview of the Gazette’s Iowa Ideas 2023 Virtual Conference on the “Urban-Rural Divide.” You can visit the Rural Shrink Smart project for more information. Professor Kimberly Zarecor
The URSYS (Urban-Rural Systems) Research Network’s third event in a series of regional workshops was held in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 5th-7th, 2024. This workshop brought together local and regional stakeholders from academia, government, non-governmental organizations, and industry to explore the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) as a large interconnected urban and environmental system. The workshop was held at the Center for Architecture at Beale Street Landing in Memphis, hosted by the AIA Memphis chapter. Kimberly Zarecor, Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University led a discussion on identifying funding opportunities, finding and submitting a federal grant, and what are the […]
Angel Colon, PhD student with Alba Argerich at the University of Missouri, is the lead author of this publication, which includes a section on the Mississippi River. You can access the report here: https://hispanicaccess.org/news-resources/research-library/item/2731-agua-corriente-the-latino-connection-to-waterways-report
