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29 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: The Dangers of the Geographical Imagination in the U.S. Eugenics Movement

By: Alan P. Marcus What is the main purpose of your study? To look at the historical role of geography and the concept of geographical imagination in the U.S. Eugenics movement, and its legacy today. What are the practical, day...
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22 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Geography in the big data age: an overview of the historical resonance of current debates

By: Daniela Ferreira, Mário Vale What is the main purpose of your study? The aim of this article is to situate the epistemological debates over big data in geography historically. How does your study relate to other work on the...
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21 Dec

Map of the Week: Map Your Holiday

By Conor White Map Your Idea is an exciting platform that brings the general public a way to easily create crowdsourced and community maps. The idea began when four friends produced a crowdsourced map of socially distant trick-or-treat spots in...
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16 Dec

Map of the Week: Holidays Shine Brightly

By Conor White With the holiday season upon us, this week’s Map of the Week looks at the significant changes detected in the amount and distribution of artificial lighting during the holiday season in North America. A study, by a...
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15 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Nuclear to Nature Land Conversion

By: Daisaku Yamamoto, Julia Feikens, Melissa Haller What is the main purpose of your study? Our study’s purpose is to better understand the origin of nuclear-to-nature land conversion as it applies to former nuclear power plant properties, and to identify...
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14 Dec

Company Spotlight: Cesium

By Conor White Cesium is the foundational open platform for software applications designed to unleash the power of 3D location data. Location data collected by satellites, aircrafts and drones in today’s world is 3D in nature and Cesium unlocks the...
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10 Dec

Map of the Week: Evergreens

By Nicole Oveisi Reuters recently put together interactive graphics explaining the evergreen economy. Last year, over 26 million evergreen trees were sold in the United States for the holiday season, making evergreen production a $2 billion industry. According to the...
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8 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Cities and Migration – Bibliometric Evidence from a Spatially Biased Field of Knowledge Production

By: Antonie Schmiz* (corresponding), Carsten Felgentreff, Martin Franz, Marcel Paul, Andreas Pott, Charlotte Räuchle, Sebastian Schrader What is the main purpose of your study? The main purpose of the study is to show that common research on migration and cities...
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3 Dec

Map of the Week: Queering the Map

By Nicole Oveisi Queering the Map is an online, crowd-sourced mapping project that geolocates queer moments in space. Its purpose is to collectively document spaces where queer memories have occurred. The project aims to move away from the notion that...
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1 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Whose Puget Sound?: Examining place attachment, residency, and stewardship in the Puget Sound region

By: David J. Trimbach, Whitney Fleming, Kelly Biedenweg What is the main purpose of your study? Our study examines the relationships among residents’ attachment to place, residency length, and pro-environmental stewardship behaviors in the Puget Sound region of Washington State...
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