Tom Paradis

Website:

https://www.architecturestyles.org/

Profile:

Tom is Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN, having moved to the Midwest after 18 years at Northern Arizona University. At NAU he was recognized as a President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow. His teaching and research interests include urban planning and development, architectural history, cultural landscapes, urban design, and tourism development. He also teaches a course called Weather, Climate & Society, and an innovative first-year seminar called Unpacking the Hunger Games. His recent books on the Hunger Games saga include "A Place Called District 12: Appalachian Geography and Music in the Hunger Games" (McFarland, 2022), and "Behind the Ballads: A Tribute to the People, Places, and Music of Songbirds and Snakes" (2024). His research and writing have also featured places as diverse as Siena, Italy, and Singapore. He published Living the Palio: A Story of Community and Public Life in Siena, Italy (2020 3rd Edition), and its follow-up, "Unbridled Spirit: The Untold Story of the 2018 Extraordinary Palio in Siena, Italy (2020). Most recently in 2025 a five-year project culminated in the new book, "A Daughter of Singapore: Life Lessons of a Homegrown Tour Guide."

Posts by Tom Paradis:

• Sunrise on the 70s: Shag Carpet, Wood Paneling, and Orange Everywhere
• Pa Abernathy’s Big Metaphor: Painting Posters and Reclaiming the Narrative
• What Lies Beneath the Snow: How Lucy Gray, Coriolanus, and Sejanus Explore Human Nature Throughout Songbirds and Snakes
• Unpacking David Hume’s “Implicit Submission”: How He Might Critique Songbirds and Snakes and the Social Contract
• Inside the Baffling Gamemaker Scene in Sunrise: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Implicit Submission?
• Toad Licking is a (Deathly) Thing: A Psychedelic Throwback to the 1970s.
• Inside the Dome: Plutarch, Haymitch, and Renaissance Architecture in District 11
• Two Generations of Donners: The Sweetshop, Marshmallows, Mayor’s House, Piano, Merrilee’s Illness, Canaries, and the Mockingjay Pin (Whew!)
• Strawberry Connections: Why Mags Sends Ice Cream Into the Arena and Trilogy Tie-ins
• Burdock’s Clues to a Third Prequel and Other Loose Ends in Sunrise