Academic Books

James R. Curtis, “A Typology of Brazilian Urban Squares: Its Application in the City of Manaus,” in Cites and Urban Geography in Latin America, edited by Vicent Ortells Chabrera, Robert B. Kent, and Javier Soriana Martí. Edita: Universitat Jaume I, España, 2005, pp. 39-60.

James R. Curtis, “Barrio Space and Place in Southeast Los Angeles, California,” in Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America, edited by Daniel D. Arreola. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004, pp. 125-141.

James R. Curtis, review of The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death and Possible Rebirth, by Blake Gumprecht, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 3 (September 2002), pp. 593-594.

James R. Curtis, review of La Gran Linea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857, by Paula Rebert, Information Bulletin, Western Association of Map Libraries, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2002), pp. 169-170.

James R. Curtis, review of Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle, The Professional Geographer, Vol. 53, No. 4 (November 2001), pp. 563-564.

James R. Curtis, review of From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, by Lawrence Herzog, Geographical Review, Vol. 90, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 145-147.

James R. Curtis, "Praças, Place, and Public Life: Urban Squares in Brazil," Geographical Review, Vol 90, No. 4 (October 2000), pp. 475-492.

James R. Curtis, review of La Vida Latina en L.A.: Urban Latino Cultures, edited by Gustavo Leclerc et al., Urban Geography, Vol. 21, No. 3 (April 1 - May 15, 2000), pp. 278-279.

James R. Curtis, "Sequential Change on America's Hippest Beach," in Tom L. McKnight, Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, second edition. Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, pp. 224-225.

James R. Curtis, "The U.S.-Mexico Border: A Line or a Zone?" in Tom L. McKnight, Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, pp. 376-377.

Daniel D. Arreola and James R. Curtis, "Tourist Landscapes," in U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Oscar J. Martínez. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., #11 in the series Jaguar Books on Latin America, 1996, pp. 236-243.

Daniel D. Arreola and James R. Curtis, "Cultural Landscapes of the Mexican Border Cities," Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Vol. 21, Nos. 1 & 2 (1992-1996), pp. 1-47.

James R. Curtis, "Miami's Little Havana: Yard Shrines, Cult Religion and Landscape," in
Mapping the Social Landscape, edited by Susan J. Ferguson. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1996, pp. 485-494. (Reprinted from 1980 below.)

James R. Curtis, "Art Deco Architecture in Miami Beach," in Fast Food, Stock Cars, and Rock-n-Roll, edited by George O. Carney. Lanhan, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefied Publishers, 1996. (Reprinted from 1982 below.)

James R. Curtis, review of Re-reading Cultural Geography, edited by Kenneth E. Foote, et al., Geographical Review, Vol. 84, No. 4 (October 1996), pp. 624-626.

James R. Curtis, "Mexicali's Chinatown," Geographical Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (July 1995), pp. 336-349.

James R. Curtis, review of Border People: Life and Society in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands by Oscar J. Martínez, Journal of Geography, Vol. 94, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec., 1995), pp. 601-602.

Daniel D. Arreola and James R. Curtis, "Ciudad Chihuahua: Its Changing Morphology and Landscape," Yearbook: Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG), Vol. 20 (1994), pp. 73-85.

James R. Curtis and Richard F. Rose, "The Miami Sound: A Contemporary Latin Form of Place-Specific Music," in The Sounds of People and Places: A Geography of American Folk and Popular Music, edited by George O. Carney. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994, pp. 263-274. (Reprinted from 1983 below.)

James R. Curtis, "Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl," in The Sounds of People and Places: A Geography of American Folk and Popular Music, edited by George O. Carney. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994, pp. 253-262.

James R. Curtis, review of Derelict Landscapes: The Wasting of America's Built Environment by John A. Jackle and David Wilson, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer 1994), pp. 101-102.

James R. Curtis, review of In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin American by Alan Gilbert, The Professional Geographer, Vol. 46, No. 2 (May 1994), pp. 258-259.

James R. Curtis, "Havana's Parque Coppelia: A Microcosm of Public Space Traditions in Socialist Cuba," Places: A Quarterly Journal of Environmental Design, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Spring 1993) pp. 62-67.

James R. Curtis, "Central Business District of the Two Laredos," Geographical Review, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Jan. 1993), pp. 54-65.

James R. Curtis, "Cuba," Compton's Encyclopedia and Fact-Index (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1993, pp. 800-804). (An invited 5,000 word essay that carries the author's name and institutional affiliation).

James R. Curtis, review of Mapping American Culture, edited by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner, Geographical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4 (October 1993), pp. 481-483.

James R. Curtis, "Shangri-La and Pakistan's Hunza River Valley," Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1992), pp. 55-68.

James R. Curtis, review of Where North Meets South: Cities, Space, and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Lawrence A. Herzog, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 82, No. 4, (December 1992), pp. 715-718.

James R. Curtis, review of The Spanish-American Homeland: Four Centuries in New Mexico's Rio Arriba by Alvar W. Carlson, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Winter 1992), P. 121.

James R. Curtis and Daniel D. Arreola, "Zonas de Tolerencia on the Northern Mexican Border," Geographical Review, Vol. 81, No. 3 (July 1991), pp. 333-346.

Thomas D. Boswell and James R. Curtis, "The Hispanization of Metropolitan Miami," in South Florida: The Winds of Change, edited by Thomas D. Boswell. Miami: Association of American Geographers, 1991, pp. 140-161.

James R. Curtis, review of Urban Texas: Politics and Development, edited by Char Miller and Heywood T. Sanders, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 17, No. 4 (0ct.,1991), pp. 487-488.

James R. Curtis and Daniel D. Arreola, "Through Gringo Eyes: Tourist Districts in the Mexican Border Cities as Other-directed Places," North American Culture, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1989), pp. 19-33.

James R. Curtis, "The Show and the Sport: San Diego's World Championship Over-The-Line Tournament," Sport Place International, Vol. 3, No. 1 & 2 (Spring & Summer, 1989), pp. 18-23.

James R. Curtis, "Ethnic Geography of the South," Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989, pp. 541-542. (An invited 2,500 word essay that carries the author's name and institutional affiliation).

James R. Curtis, "The Global View: Issues for Our Time," in Essentials of Geography, New York: Random House, 1989, pp. 266-284.

James R. Curtis, review of With Open Arms: Cuban Migration to the United States by Felix Roberto Masud-Piloto, Journal of Geography, Vol. 88, No. 3 (May-June 1989), p. 109.

James R. Curtis and Larry Ford, "Bungalow Courts in San Diego: Monitoring a Sense of Place," Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Spring 1988), pp. 79-92.

James R. Curtis, "The Most Famous Fence in the World: Fact and Fiction in Mark Twain's Hannibal," Landscape, Vol. 28, No. 3 (1985), pp. 8-14.

James R. Curtis and David Helgren, "Yard Ornaments in the American Landscape," Journal of Regional Cultures, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984), pp. 78-92.

James R. Curtis and Fred Atwill, "Preservation and User Perception of an Historic South Florida Gas Station," Journal of Regional Cultures, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1984), pp. 93-100.

James R. Curtis and Richard F. Rose, "'The Miami Sound': A Contemporary Latin Form of Place Specific Music," Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1983), pp. 110-118.

James R. Curtis, "Lament for an Art Deco Landmark," Landscape, Vol. 27, No. 1 (1983), pp. 40-47.

James R. Curtis, "Santería: Persistence and Change in an Afro-Cuban Cult Religion," in Objects of Special Devotion: Fetishes and Fetishism in Popular Culture, edited by Ray B. Browne. Bowling Green, OH: The Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982, pp. 336-351.

James R. Curtis, "McDonald's Abroad: Outposts of American Culture," Journal of Geography, Vol. 81 (Jan.-Feb., 1982), pp. 14-20.

James R. Curtis, "Art Deco Architecture in Miami Beach," Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 3, (1982), pp. 51-63.

James R. Curtis, "New Chicago of the Far West: Land Speculation in Alviso, California, 1890-91," California History, Vol. 61 (1982), pp. 36-45.

James R. Curtis, "The Boutiquing of Cannery Row," Landscape, Vol. 25 (1981), pp. 44-48.

James R. Curtis, "Miami's Little Havana: Yard Shrines, Cult Religion and Landscape," Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1980), pp. 1-15.

Above reprinted in: Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture, edited by Ray B. Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980, pp. 105-119).

James R. Curtis, "Whatever Happened to Port San Jose?" California Geographer, Vol. 18 (1978), pp. 35-42.

James R. Curtis, "Prickly Pear Farming in the Santa Clara Valley, California," Economic Botany, Vol. 31 (1977), pp. 175-179.

Christopher L. Salter and James R. Curtis, "Agrarian Renewal: Farming Under Utility Power Lines in Los Angeles County," California Geographer, Vol. 15 (1976), pp. 25-38.

James R. Curtis, "Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl," Places, Vol. 3 (1976), pp. 12-18.

James R. Curtis, "Changing Net Technology and Resource Depletion in the Sardine Fishery at Monterey, California," California Geographer, Vol. 14 (1974), pp. 42-51.