I think in maps, actually. I tend to ask how these places came to be the way they are. American Journalism Review details the unique newspaper war in its April issue. UW-Madison is the only campus in the country served by two independent student newspapers publishing five days a week. A second paper offers twice the opportunity for students to get daily newspaper experience, says Dunwoody.
Homelessness is a social problem most often associated with urban areas.
But small rural communities also must deal with the challenge of helping homeless people. Rural sociologist Gene Summers and his students are currently conducting a study to pinpoint trends in rural homelessness. We have no national database to track the rural homeless, in part because it is so difficult. Most small communities do not have homeless shelters, and a lot of the families are finding temporary shelter with friends and kin rather than living in a pickup truck down by the river. It may be that such cells can eventually be used for therapy and that would be quite exciting.