UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

6 May

Jibestream Spotlight

Have you ever entered a building and immediately felt lost? Winding through the hallways or floors, you wander around, looking for a hint as to where you are going. Jibestream sees this issue as a challenge to overcome with their...
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1 May

Map of the Week: Salaries Needed to Buy Homes in 50 U.S. Metro Areas in 2019

Home prices are rising across the country, and although this is happening at a slower pace than in previous quarters, the difference in prices can be a stark reminder of the challenges that first time buyers face when deciding where...
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24 Apr

Map of the Week: OneNYC Plans to Make Drastic Changes and Protect NYC From Flooding

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has come up with a blueprint to enforce new citywide regulations that would help in the fight against dangerous, and costly flooding on Manhattan’s Southern tip. Part of his “OneNYC” initiative, the plan...
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16 Apr

Geographical Review Preview: State‐Led Innovation at the City Level: Policy Measures to Promote New Energy Vehicles in Shenzhen, China

By: Johannes Lauer and Ingo Liefner Article: State‐Led Innovation at the City Level: Policy Measures to Promote New Energy Vehicles in Shenzhen, China What is the main purpose of your study? The paper examines the effects of innovation policy and...
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3 Apr

Map of the Week: Navigating Brexit

designs are fully credited to TradePeers Ltd and Tube Map Central and another example of their beautiful maps in featured at the bottom of this article, www.brexitmapping.com. Brexit news and reports have been occurring now for almost three years. The...
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2 Apr

Geographical Review Preview: Patterns of Disaster Commemoration in Long-term Recovery

By: Elyse Zavar and Ronald Schumann Article: Patterns of Disaster Commemoration in Long-term Recovery What is the main purpose of your study? This paper investigates the ways in which commemorations produced after disasters remember the locations, events, and lives of those...
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27 Mar

Geographical Review Preview: Conceptualizing Sanctuary as a Process in the United States

Author Name: Serin Houston Article Title: ‘Conceptualizing Sanctuary as a Process in the United States,’ for the October 2019 Special Issue, ‘Displacing Borders, Dislocating Refugees’. What is the main purpose of your study? I textually examine a set of immigrant...
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13 Mar

Map of the Week: Live Universal Awareness Map

Live Universal Awareness Map, or Liveuamap for short, is a revolutionary new source of data that is displayed spatially to show global news and information. Founded in 2014, this company has a goal to “help predict and prevent future conflicts,...
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13 Mar

Company Spotlight: MapStory

MapStory Understanding stories about historical events, change over time for that matter, can sometimes be difficult. Ask yourself when was the last time that you read a history piece, and how useful a spatial reference could have been? And even...
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6 Mar

Map of the Week: The Re-Greenification of Earth

This map shows the relative greening (increase in vegetation) and browning (decrease in vegetation) around the globe. As you can see both China and India have significant greening. Despite alarming rates of deforestation in Brazil and Indonesia, researchers from NASA...
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