Click Here to Listen: Niagara Stories from This American Life

'The classic story of America is the story of people who started with nothing, pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, and made something of themselves. The story of the town of Niagara Falls is the opposite. The town started with something huge — the Falls — and built nothing lasting from it. The modern history of Niagara Falls can be divided roughly into three phases: schemers who came in trying to exploit the Falls for tourism, and failed; schemers who came in and tried to exploit the Falls for hydroelectric power, who've all gone; and the people who are left in Niagara today. Our show is about this last group: people who live in the aftermath.'

Ira Glass: This American Life, Niagara, 1999

Click Here to Listen: 'You Are Here' from This American Life Podcast

Jailbreak the 'Map'.... Another instalment of place 'stories' from This American Life.

Click Here to Listen: Hysterical Podcast from This American Life on Mapping

This Podcast investigates Mapping 'practice' primarily through the five senses. At times trivial and frivolous there is, however, enormous insight into the nature of the place that surrounds us and the space we embody in our everyday lives.

A map of phone, cable, and power lines. Image by Denis Wood. From Act One.