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PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE: In his book "Public Power, Private Dams: The Hell's Canyon High Dam Controversy,"
Karl Boyd Brooks, assistant professor of history and environmental studies, explores the environmental history of the United States by focusing specifically on a proposed dam on the Snake River in Idaho's Hell's Canyon. Brooks tells the story of the controversy surrounding what was proposed to be the world's biggest dam. The project became a referendum on public-power expansion as well as environmental implications of the New Deal's natural resources and economic policy.
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Scot Hein, who received architecture degrees from KU in 1979 and 1980, is the senior urban designer for the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. He is leading the design of the athletes village for the 2010 Olympics that will take place in Vancouver. Hein also teaches at the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.
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