New Urbanism
Sunday May 31, 2009
New Urbanism is a urban planning and design movement that is relatively new. Designed to make livable and walkable cities, it is a movement that many planners and cities ... Read More
Gay Marriage Rights Map
Wednesday May 27, 2009
The Los Angeles Times has produced a nice interactive map showing that state-by-state status of gay marriage. The map is also a choropleth map on a red to green ... Read More
Geography Quiz
Tuesday May 26, 2009
My latest geography quiz anxiously awaits you! The are fifteen multiple-choice questions along with a very special sixteenth bonus question for astute geographers. Good luck, I think you'll ... Read More
The Little Man in the Map
Tuesday May 26, 2009
The Little Man in the Map by E. Andrew Martonyi is a colorful and interesting book that aims to teach young people the location, names, and shapes of all the ... Read More
Google Jumps into 17th Century Caste Drama
Tuesday May 26, 2009
Google unwittingly jumped into a Japanese caste battle from the 17th century by simply allowing antique maps to be overlaid on Google Earth in Japan. The controversy revolves around ... Read More
Vulnerable People and Disaster
Tuesday May 26, 2009
The New York Times reports on two new studies that emphasize the increasing risk of the world's ever-growing urban populations to disasters. The first sentence sums everything up nicely: ... Read More
Michael Palin to Head Royal Geographical Society
Monday May 25, 2009
Michael Palin, the former Monty Python turned global explorer assumes the presidency of the formidable Royal Geographical Society on June 1. In a move that is sure to provide ... Read More
The Four States of California
Friday May 22, 2009
California's state budget and economic woes are world renowned. Journalist Martin Hutchinson suggests that to solve the state's problems, California be divided into four states. Read his article ... Read More
Thematic Maps
Thursday May 21, 2009
Amanda Briney's latest article covers the topic of thematic maps. She describes the history and development of thematic maps and teaches about the five types of thematic maps.
Eric Yang of Texas Wins National Geographic Bee
Wednesday May 20, 2009
Texan seventh grader Eric Yang from The Colony, a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth, won the 2009 National Geographic Bee today in Washington D.C. Eric's winning question, the third tiebreaker ... Read More
NATO Expansion and Map Game
Wednesday May 20, 2009
In light of NATO's recent expansion to 28 countries as Albania and Croatia joined on April 1, NATO introduces a new map game that allows users to identify NATO member ... Read More
Challenges of Place Names
Tuesday May 19, 2009
Keith Moore the head of Cartographic Services for the Collins and Times atlas publishers writes a fascinating piece about the challenges of place names in an atlas. Do you ... Read More
New Retired Hurricane Names
Tuesday May 19, 2009
The hurricane committee of the World Meteorological Organization has announced that three Atlantic hurricane names from the 2008 hurricane season have been retired. Follow the link for a chronological ... Read More
Great Wall of China Grows
Sunday May 17, 2009
The Great Wall of China, has been found to be much longer than previously thought, thanks to geographic studies using infra-red and GPS found many areas concealed over time by ... Read More
Sea Level Rise
Sunday May 17, 2009
The New York Times has a lengthy magazine article about the state of affairs in the Maldives, a low-lying archipelago in the Indian Ocean that is at risk from any ... Read More
Watersheds
Thursday May 14, 2009
Amanda Briney's latest article is an awesome overview of watersheds and how they function, their significance, and their management.
A Successful Car-Free Suburb
Thursday May 14, 2009
In a new suburb of Freiburg, Germany, cars are a thing of the past. The community of Vauban, population 5500, prohibits cars in most places and 70% of the ... Read More
California Might Lose House Seats
Wednesday May 13, 2009
For the first time in California's history since becoming a state in 1850, the Golden State might lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives following the reapportionment after Census ... Read More
Population Projections Gone Astray
Sunday May 10, 2009
The BBC has an interesting article that looks at the challenge of making population projections because people don't do what the demographers expect them to do. The article succinctly ... Read More
Nollywood Moves to Second Place
Wednesday May 6, 2009
Nollywood, the name for Nigeria's film industry, has surpassed the United States to become the world's second leading movie producing region of the world. In 2006, Bollywood produced 1,091 ... Read More
Wetlands
Wednesday May 6, 2009
Wetlands are areas of land that are covered with shallow fresh water or saltwater and feature species adapted to life in a saturated environment. Learn all about wetlands in ... Read More
Is Greenland a Continent?
Tuesday May 5, 2009
Over the years I've received a few questions about the status of Australia and Greenland as continents. Finally, I decided to write about the topic of why Australia is ... Read More
French Spend Most Time Sleeping and Eating
Tuesday May 5, 2009
A recent survey among OECD member countries found that residents of France spend more time sleeping and eating than residents of any other OECD country. The French sleep on ... Read More
A New Map of Europe
Monday May 4, 2009
An artist has created a provocative map of Europe. Titled, "Where I Live," countries and regions are renamed based on stereotypical ideas of the places.
Does Latitude Impact Sex Ratio?
Friday May 1, 2009
An interesting study claims that latitude influences sex ratio. The study looked at sex ratios of boys vs. girls at birth in the capital cities of "202 countries." ... Read More