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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Interesting developments in NYC
I like it when people reclaim the commons and create chaotic, performative events built around action in space, rather than narrative. It might be mimicing the events of Arab Spring, but tactics diffuse. Ten years ago, the point of vulneraility were the...
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very happy
I have been enjoying watching the occupy wall street moment develop. It has been ten years since the big summit convergences and the comming together of youth and unions in a common space of resistance. That all ended on September 11, replaced by a mostly...
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Saturday Morning after the floods
Yesterday I was supposed to go on a weekend trip to the country. That did not happen because of flash flooding here in Wuhan, which made travel from my house to the train station impossible. Instead of having a weekend get away I am stuck here in the...
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China Smack
One of my favorite sites is China Smack, there I can read in English the stories circulating around the Chinese language internet. I can relate to many of the posts that deal with eveyday life here and the tensions of a social formation rapidly undergoing...
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Another cool journal
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...
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November 2.
Lately I have had plenty of time to surf through various web sites concerned with the OWS campouts. It has been facinating to read the non-coverage in the Washington Post, and the cheerleading on Truthout, Alternet, and Counterpunch. All this time at...
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OWS observed safely over coffee on a balcony in Wuhan
The OWS protests are interesting as I follow them from Wuhan. It is all so spatial, claiming and remaking community space in the city. It s multi-scalar and provides a framing for a number of localized social conflicts concering public space and the commons....
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Orientalism revisited
I read the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report "Another U.S. Deficit:-- China and America –Public Diplomacy in the Age of the Internet" today. What an amazing document, it reads like a laundry list of distortions and misrepresentations. Individual...
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Bird`s eye view
I am facinated by maps, map making , GISci and neogeography in the context of politics and activism. Map making is a subjective process, involving aesthetic choices as well as quantitative analysis. Each choice is informed by sets of assumptions conscious...
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Washington Monuments and Me
While I might be sojourning in Wuhan, I am a lifelong resident of the Washington area. The personal histories of residents of the District of Columbia often intersect with the larger histories of locality and nation, mine included. My family has made...
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Austerity and resistance
Reading the news about the "debt deal" in particular the CNN report about the impact on higher education angered me. While wars and defense spending will continue unchecked, graduate students like me take the hit. We are often displaced workers, people...
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A rant about 3D modeling
I have lately been spending a lot of time thinking about photogrammetry and remote sensing. These are not really my interest areas but they sort of force themselves upon you in a place where informationization is currently underway in concert with urbanization,...
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Social networks
I have been renviewing the literature and surfing the internet looking at social network analysis. Social network analysis unlike some other social science methods examines structures of relationships rather than attributes of entities. Starting with...
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Greece
Very interesting POV on the emerging situation in Greece. Amazing that the soon-to-be ex-government cancelled the referendum after a meeting with the Troika, I wonder how far off a military coup is, given the reorganization of the military and the disregard...
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Monumental Washington DC as urban imaginary
A city is an event, a social product that persists. As a site where continuous politics is preformed, the national Mall becomes a ritual space for the enactment of American Civil religion. The Mall is separated from the mundane civic life of the District...
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Fascist space and some ideas about point pattern analysis
.In our historical context, a fascist state or fascist movement plays a different role than in the time of Hitler or Mussolini. Locations of known fascist groups can be interrogated as point patterns and aggregated to territorial areas so as to expose...