Richard Jackson

Internationally acclaimed Slovian artist Metka Krascaron;ovek created a suite of drawings inspired by the poems of Emily Dickinson. Editor Richard Jackson began gathering poems created in response to the drawings - fascinating and insightful examples of double ekphrasis. The Heart's Many Doors is a rich, cross-genre combination of writing and art that functions as a multi-faceted commentary on Dickinson, art and the creative process. 41 American poets...

"An ailing grandfather and his helpful granddaughter play a unique game of seek and find"--

Jonah tags along when Maise takes the dog, Tinker, out, and he turns their walk into an exercise in imagination.

1. Retrofitting suburbia: Dr. Richard Jackson MD MPH, investigates the link between our nations obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban planning, Boulder, CO redesigns the city to make bicycles a safe alternative transportation. Two Denver suburbs transform dead malls into --2. Rebuilding places of the heart: When U.S. industry and manufacturing collapsed or went elsewhere,...

Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for healthy, sustainable communities of all sizes and shapes that can serve as models for the rest of the nation. His journey takes him to Roseto, Pennsylvania, Prairie Crossing, Illinois, New York City, New York, Charleston, South Carolina, and the forgotten 1960s urban renewal project of Lafayette Park in Detroit, Michigan, the brainchild of four men, including visionary architect, Mies van der Rohe....

Dr. Jackson believes that it's every citizen's right to live in a clean, healthy environment. But right now, not everyone lives in an environment like that. Many low-income neighborhoods that were built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities are full of citizens denied that right: in Oakland, a morbidly obese grandmother struggles to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the port; in the...

Eadweard Muybridge's gripping life story, one dripping with ambition, success, betrayal, deception and murder.