blogs and websites

Mapping prefigures politics; an exercise in power/knowledge, Zoning and landuse patterns put people in thier place, reflecting socio-spatial practices that slice through multiple scales visible in red and blue state maps. Areal interpolation techniques...

I thought this was interesting, mapping and mapping technologies are instruments of power..whoever makes the map prefigures reality... Illegal mapping hotline fails to ignite interest By Wang Qian (China Daily) Updated: 2011-04-26 08:12 BEIJING - A new...

It is sort of weird seeing the relics of a past vision of a utopian future, Susan Buck-Morss and her book on the end of mass utopias captures this feeling as we careen madly off into a neoliberal utopian visioning of technocratic expertise and individualism....

Karl-Marx-Hof: The Kilometre-Long Apartment Building Basement Geographer |kuschk View Larger Map That long row of buildings you see in the above image isn’t actually a row of buildings – it’s one giant building; the world’s longest residential building....

The future according to Google 2011 April 19 tags: google, humour, image, XKCD by Garry Peterson Some projections about the future from the webcomic XKCD:

Urban Studies Research is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of urban studies. Research Article I liked: Mega-events and urban conflicts in Valencia (Spain). Contesting...

I enjoyed the blog about the Ushahadi Cooker, and in general think the technology is a perfect example of how web2.0 crowdsourcing can contribute to democratizing geospatial intelligence.Steve Mastering Layers: the Ushahidi Cooker of Newscoop Micz Flor...