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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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another interesting blog
It never ceases to amaze me what people are doing with maps and cartography. I loved this blog.... Mediated Cityscapes 03: DIY Cartography [Theory] [Eric Fischer / Locals and Tourists #45 (GTWA #133): Los Angeles and Pasadena / 2010] A month ago in Minneapolis,...
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Movies
I liked this movie when I saw it last year. I found the review on a blog space and fiction, project to collaboratively map geographies of fiction including film. Another site, Canadian cinematographic territories is a collaborative mapping: "In this research...
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Hate crime in the US from DoJ hate crime reports and Google News
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....
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Hate crime, hate groups and scale
An analysis of hate crime and hate groups in the US, must consider spatial properties and how they relate to the research question at hand. Hate crime and hate groups both display patterns of spatial unevenness at multiple scales and with differing patterns...
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Wuhan
I thought this was the best website about Wuhan with good links and the Wuhan interactive map. Wuhan is a facinating place...a part of the sustainable cities program at the global scale. Recently the city implemented price controls to contain escalating...
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Lotus and Lunch
A friend`s parents invited me out today to see the botanical gardens near East Lake. After visiting the gardens, we went out to lunch at one of those traditional roadhouses. I enjoy those places, a couple of specialty dishes in a down-home atmosphere,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yesterday
We had a day to kill before the night train back to Wuhan so we went to Tienamen Square. It seemed to me a very odd public space, sort of broken up, and not too visually coherent. The big road between the square and the Fobidden City did not help. The...
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crumbling utopia
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...
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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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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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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...
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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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Seattle and the AAG
It was very interesting being an American tourist from China visiting Seattle. Visiting tourist attractions in Beijing and then Seattle made me think about tourism, tourist geographies and the exotic. What attracts me as a traveler is really difference-not...
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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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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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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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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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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...