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Red Songs and Segregated Seattle
I am pooped out right now, so I will not be writing much-just got back from a red songs competition that LIESMARS ( The geoinfomatics department at Wuhan University) was competing in against the other schools and departments. Everyone went to great effort...
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More interesting reading
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....
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Graphics
A picture is worth a thousand words. I think this graphic captures the essence of Northern Virginia and the core business of the Washington Metropolitan Area in all its glory. The picture came from the Project for the Old American Century website. Comic...
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What I am reading today
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...
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New Census data
I think this analysis is great. William Frey the demographer has also written about the new census.He addresses among other things the impact of immigration on population. The US Census of course has written its own series of white papers and has a very...
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Happy mid-autumn festival...after the fact
I had a great holiday weekend, three days of relaxation and reading. I spent Saturday with friends eating wonderful Wuhanese food then two days of sleeping, reading and listening on online broadcasts about 9-11 commemorations on Pacifica. I was particularly...
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The dark side of urbanism
Policing and warfare are not altogether distinct phenomena. The distinction might lie in the scale of conflict—but nevertheless—the designation and classification of state violence is political, expressing a power relationship between the police and the...
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Storms and Earthquakes
This summer has been odd. For the entire season when people were enjoying some down time and hitting the beach with their families, the US government was in a restructuring generated crisis over the debt. When the dust settled, what remains of the New...
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Spring trip to Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province
Inside a Buddhist Temple(see below) Climbing around the rocks in the stream, Lying Dragon Valley Buddhist Temple in one of the historic mountain villages A street scene along a stream. My work trip was a blast, I am really tired now, need to put captions...
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World cities
Being in Wuhan located in central China has prompted me to revisit the world and global cities literatrure. Several nights ago visiting Hankau and its old Wuhan concession area made me recall in particular Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, "Global Shanghai, 1850–2010"...
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Actionable intelligence
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...
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WPFW 98.3 FM "The Messenger"
I was asked to help estimate the demographics of the listener supported radio station WPFW located in NW Washington DC. The station provided an excel table of recent data on donors by zip codes. The station also provided the service area boundaries and...
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Action research, mapping and civic engagement in Virginia
I have been recently working with Virginia New Majority to make a series of maps to inform planning for precinct walks in Virginia State house districts. It is collaborative, involving emails, exchanges of data back and forth, and skype calls. The core...
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Safe and scary places: George Mason University at back to school time
Students, staff, planners, visitors and police construct George Mason University through spatial practices performed everyday. Space is subject to territorializing and deterritorializing processes (Duncan 1996:128) from multiple vantage points. For planners...
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McDonalds
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...
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Learning to write my name
My language skills are not very sharp...after about three months I can still only say a couple of words. Reading and writting are impossable at this point. I need to write my name however, and learning the characters has been a two-week project. At last...
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What’s a Line Got to do With it? Redistricting and Fair Elections in Prince William County.
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...
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home
WuHan is a city undergoing a rapid transition I often forget the day of the week and the time differences between here and there. I cannot read anything so staying abreast of which day of the week it is, challenges me. Sometimes after work I go to a student...
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Its been awhile
I have been busy busy for the last month..no time for anything other than work, work, work. I celebrated Christmas by making a trip to Hong Kong. A totally different experience than Wuhan. It feels much like any other world city. Hong Kong seems to me...
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East Lake tea farm
Today Thomas drove Adam and I down to the East Lake scenic area. We walked around a bit, then got back in the car and drove down a side road to a small tea growing village. It was interesting to find a rural town so close to a major urban center. It was...
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Flood mapping as Public Geography
As partisan action research (Frampton 2006) , public geography has a commitment which presents some challenges which are less evident in collaborative research across institutional structures such as the National Weather Service Flood Inundation Mapping...
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Forgotten Memorials
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....
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Moving
I changed apartments this week, my new crib is on the 5th floor of the central building of my complex. It has some great views. What I love about the city scape of Wuhan is for a lack of a better word, its syncopated modularity, a rythmn of intersecting...
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Regionalism, Go Go and the DMV
Ultimately, the meaning of place is fixed through a social imaginary, or an iconic image. An "urban imaginary" is the way we mentally map out our urban "realities" and how we "think about, experience, evaluate, and decide to act in the places, spaces,...
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tasty food
One of those tasty meals. As someone who thinks qualitative research is important, I am the research instrument, my own thoughts, feelings and perceptions are the data, and the method requires that I reflexively examine my own reactions as much as the...