UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

17 Nov

Geographical Review Preview: Distance decay effects on public transportation ridership in the context of a Metropolitan University Campus: Evidence from the Autonomous University of Barcelona

By: Guillem Vich and coauthored by Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Julio Soria-Lara, Oriol Marquet and Carme Miralles-Guasch What is the main purpose of your study? This study analyses the influence of distance to railway station, the sociodemographic profile and commuting characteristics on...
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12 Nov

Map of the Week: The World’s Most Polluted Airs

By Nicole Oveisi The New York Times created an interactive visualization and map of the world’s most polluted airs by tiny particulate matter. Users may choose their city to visualize, while comparing and contrasting to majorly polluted areas worldwide. For...
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10 Nov

Geographical Review Preview: Fight for the City: Policing, Sanctuary, and Resistance in Chicago

By: Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz and Reyna Wences What is the main purpose of your study? This essay traces a community campaign to free a Chicago man from immigrant detention and discover why Chicago’s sanctuary policy did not protect him from arrest....
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5 Nov

Map of the Week: NYC’s New Live Subway Map

By Nicole Oveisi Source: Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) just released their newly upgraded subway map. The infamous NYC Hertz-Tauranac subway map that was released in 1979 has endured throughout the decades, however MTA’s new...
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3 Nov

Geographical Review Preview: Spatializing Black Culture Through the Placemaking Tradition of the Rural Louisiana Creole Boucherie

By: Alexandra L. Giancarlo What is the main purpose of your study? The main purpose of the study is to examine the cultural practice of holding a boucherie, or a group hog-butchering, in rural Creole communities in southwestern Louisiana. Creoles,...
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27 Oct

Map of the Week: The Racial Dot Map

By Conor White The Racial Dot Map is created by the Demographics Research Group at Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. It uses data from the United States Census in 2010 and provides an accessible...
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27 Oct

Geographical Review Preview: Think locally, act locally: A critique of China’s specialty town program in practice

By: Xiaohui Hu, Wei Xu, Julie Miao What is the main purpose of your study? The main purpose of our study is to examine how local states in China interpret and implement a top-down national policy on small-town development since...
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26 Oct

Company Spotlight: Royce Geospatial Consultants

By Arden Benner Founded in 2015, Royce Geospatial Consultants (Royce Geo) is a fast-growing small-business government contractor specializing in the realm of Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT). Not to be placed in one box, the Royce Geo team has a wide-ranging skill...
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22 Oct

Map of the Week: San Francisco’s Redlining Legacy

By Conor White Redlining was the process in which banks would segregate neighborhoods by loan policy. It was a policy that began in the 1930’s and is still felt in American cities today as its legacy has led to the...
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20 Oct

Geographical Review Preview: Rurality as a Key Factor for Place Attachment in the Great Plains

By: Andrew Husa (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Cheryl E. Morse (University of Vermont) What is the main purpose of your study? Drawing on results from an online survey of the mobility of people who grew up in Nebraska, this paper...
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