KFC and Mickey D`s are all over the place in the parts of Wuhan I travel in. I go there to get coffee since it is cheap and drip style. A Walmart just opened down the road a bit, sometime I need to stop by and check it out. Mikey Dee`s sign near my house...

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...

I made these maps from the DoJ data at http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/incidents.html There is distictive pattern to the events, but at the state level of aggregation and taking into account the voluntary nature of the data, these maps are suggestive only....

Looking at the Yugoslav memorials abandoned in a field made me remember some pictures I took of old New Frontier constructions along the SW waterfront area in DC. These buildings are also in disrepair and also express the modernist utopian vision here...

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....

Actionable intelligence: Prince William County and a spatial visualization of the 111th Congress and Virginia Congressional Delegation Summary In the general elections of 2008 Virginia voted democratic for the first time since 1964 with Obama carrying...

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....

Understanding the transformations underway in China as well as those occurring back home in the US requires some understanding of neoliberalism and neoliberalization. Spending a week in Seattle and then returning to Wuhan, traveling back and forth from...

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: