Human Geography
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Book review of Tweed’s Crossing and Dwelling
The American Religious Experience at http://are.as.wvu.edu is an online journal which has been in publication for nearly a decade, which is edited by Briane Turley of WVU. In our continuing […]
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Maps for illegal immigration
A Mexican government funded commission is moving to distribute 70,000 maps to aid people trying to cross into the US. They will feature water cache locations, show transportation routes, and […]
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More on soundscapes – The Silence of the Lands project
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Center for Lifelong Learning & Design is working on a cool project called Silence of the Lands. Participants use handheld devices to record and […]
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Gentrification in Toronto
Gentrification, which is basically the re-development of older urban neighborhoods into more upscale retail, professional and residential space, is an important area of study in urban geography and often a […]
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Human Geography, Navigation, VirtualEnvironments
Virtual Hiking and the C5 Landscape Initiative
As many of you know, GIS analysis is based on the notion that alorithms within the computer can be used to analyze the digital representations of real-world physical features such […]
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General, Human Geography, VirtualEnvironments
BBC NEWS | Virtual tour of Africa’s heritage
The BBC has an interesting article on the scanning and modeling of heritage sites in Africa. This is along the same lines as some of the work that Sue and […]
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Human Geography, Physical Geography
BBC NEWS | Drought may have shaped history
this story offers up some information on a drought in Africa 70k years ago found through soil cores. The story also offers up an interpretation that is related to our […]
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Landscape Epidemiology and geospatial technologies
Understanding how diseases spread is not a new discipline of study, but with increased concerns about the effects of our global world on the spread of dangerous viruses like SARS, […]
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Show notes for AVSP Episode 18
A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 18 November 20, 2005 Main Topic: Migration Click to directly download Episode 18 Click for the detailed shownotes
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Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
GAW Day 2: Human Geography
Although definitions vary, most agree that human geography focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment, and the spatial relationships that define and are defined by those interactions. Human […]
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