Travis Kelley In her book, Wasteland: A History, Victoria di Palma describes how the term “wasteland” came to be. One anecdote that she relays describes the mid-17th century struggles of Gerrard Winstanley as he argued that all men had the right to work the land, and advocated for the unused lands on the outskirts of…

READINGS Michael Holleran, “Filling the Providence Cove: Image in the Evolution of Urban Form” in Rhode Island History 48, no. 3 (August 1990). Link to article.    Vittoria di Palma, Chapter 1 “Wasteland” in Wasteland: A History, (Yale University Press, 2014). Link to book.  PROMPT Vittoria Di Palma describes the shifting use and multiple meanings of…