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Inner Cities, Inner Suburbs, Outer Suburbs: geographies, changing preferences
By Brian Doucet
January 15, 2010
We can divide cities into three broad areas: inner cities, inner suburbs and outer suburbs. As cities change and develop, so to do the fortunes of each area, and this is the subject this article. It will argue that the traditional beliefs of poor cities and rich suburbs is being challenged as gentrification continues and poverty suburbanises. The changing location preferences of households (particularly middle-class ones) is also reflective of this transition...
2009 National Highway Data Workshop and Conference
By Matt Hiland
October 21, 2009
I recently participated in the 2009 National Highway Data Workshop and Conference (HiDaC). HiDaC’s intent is to encourage collective discussion of the often subjective and loosely defined concepts used to track and assess the performance of the public highway system. It also strives to facilitate coordination of data collection, processing, and analysis practices across jurisdictions in order to derive equitable performance measures and funding allocations across jurisdictions.
Introduction to Highway Safety Analysis – Part 3
By Matt Hiland
August 31, 2009
The recent US economic recovery package funding underscores safety as a key component of new transportation projects and also makes safety data systems eligible for stimulus funding. Many of these new or updated systems make innovative use of spatial technologies such as the global positioning system (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and linear referencing systems (LRS) to help identify locations on the highways that have potential for safety improvement. This article is the third in a series that provides a very high-level look at the typical data and processes for highway safety analysis.
Airport links, quality of life and place promotion
By Brian Doucet
July 31, 2009
Large infrastructure projects can help to unify a city and bring a better quality of life for its inhabitants. Or it can further reinforce the social, economic and spatial divisions within a city under the guise of the relentless pursuit of urban competition, place promotion, and an appeasement towards business executives. An airport rail link is one such project which, depending on how it is built and operated, has the power to have both types of impacts.
Introduction to Highway Safety Analysis – Part 2
By Matt Hiland
June 30, 2009
The recent US economic recovery package funding underscores safety as a key component of new transportation projects and also makes safety data systems eligible for stimulus funding. Many of these new or updated systems make innovative use of spatial technologies such as the global positioning system (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and linear referencing systems (LRS) to help identify locations on the highways that have potential for safety improvement. This article is the second in a series that provides a very high-level look at the typical data and processes for highway safety analysis.
Changing geographies of the immigrant city
By Brian Doucet
May 23, 2009
North American cities were founded on immigrants. As such, they have a rich and vibrant history and geography of immigration. It is a pattern that has been repeated over the decades. However, gentrification of these areas by young professionals is changing the patterns of immigration settlement...
Introduction to Highway Safety Analysis - Part 1
By Matt Hiland
April 18, 2009
The recent US economic recovery package funding underscores safety as a key component of new transportation projects and also makes safety data systems eligible for stimulus funding. Many of these new or updated systems make innovative use of spatial technologies such as the global positioning system (GPS), geographic information systems (GIS), and linear referencing systems (LRS) to help identify locations on the highways that have potential for safety improvement. This article is the first in a series that provides a very high-level look at the typical data and processes for highway safety analysis.
Opportunities to Save the World! Squandered?
By Rebecca Butler
March 23, 2009
During recent bailout negotiations, governments have had unprecedented opportunities to effect big business and mandate environmentally sustainable projects and commerce. Sadly, the opportunity is being badly squandered.
Examining ‘Industrial Heritage’ of Industrial Cities
By Brian Doucet
February 22, 2009
Many North American and European cities that once thrived as industrial hubs have experienced a great amount of urban decay while simultaneously developing numerous artistic and cultural institutions. In order for us to fully understand why these cities are the way they are today, we first have to return to a time when they were the centres of their national (and in some ways global) economy...
The End of Business as Usual: The Death of Suburban Life
By Rebecca Butler
January 31, 2009
On Tuesday October 29th, 1929 American Markets collapsed and 30 billion dollars vanished into thin air. On Sunday September 14th, 2008 the huge American financial services firm, Lehman Brothers, announced bankruptcy. Of course neither of these events happened suddenly, they were months, years, decades in the making. The truth is nobody knows what the fallout of the current depression will be...
Elections and Redistricting Reform
By Matt Hiland
January 18, 2008
One of the great things about the 2008 US election was that hundreds of thousands of Americans became actively involved in politics for the first time in their lives. With this groundswell of grassroots involvement and the next census just around the corner in 2010, this seems like a great time to bring the topic of redistricting reform to the forefront of political discussion...
How does ‘place’ impact the symbols and traditions of Christmas around the world?
By Matt Hiland
December 21, 2009
Almost 90 percent of the world's population lives north of the equator. Only Australia, the southern portion of Africa, and most of South America are south of the equator. The celebration of Christmas was scheduled on December 25 in the fourth century CE. This date was chosen because it was already recognized throughout the Roman Empire as the birthday of various Pagan gods...
Why immigrants can help urban planning
By Rebecca Butler
December 2, 2008
Politically, it is very difficult for planners to criticize the public participation process. Planners, however, have an interest in ensuring the community is truly represented. Not only for democratic reasons but also because minority groups may offer fresh perspective and innovative ideas...
International Postings on GeographyJobs.co.uk
By Robert Libera
September 16, 2008
We are now offering international job postings in addition to our domestic listings...
New GeographyJobs Features
By Robert Libera
August 28, 2008
At GeographyJobs we are always looking for ways to improve the site and the experience for our users. Check out some of our new additions...
Olympics, events, and urban regeneration
By Brian Doucet
August 12, 2008
The Beijing Olympics are now upon us. They are an international celebration of sport, with the world’s best athletes coming together and all the world’s eyes fixed on them. But of course, the Olympics are far more than sport. For cities that bid for, and, if they are lucky enough, win the right to host the games, the stakes are just as high as for the athlete’s going for gold.
An introduction to gentrification Part II
By Brian Doucet
June 24, 2008
It doesn’t take much scanning through big city newspapers these days to come across articles about gentrification. From New York to Amsterdam to Toronto and beyond, old formerly working-class inner-city neighbourhoods have been transforming into trendy affluent places very quickly...
An introduction to gentrification Part I
By Brian Doucet
May 20, 2008
It doesn’t take much scanning through big city newspapers these days to come across articles about gentrification. From New York to Amsterdam to Toronto and beyond, old formerly working-class inner-city neighbourhoods have been transforming into trendy affluent places very quickly...
So what is a Geographer anyway (Part III)
By Brian Doucet
March 10, 2008
Chances are if you have studied geography, you have read a lot of literature written by people who are not geographers. Because the definitions of geography overlap onto many different other fields of study, it is only logical that some of the authors who are the most influential to our own discipline, come from other subjects...
So what is a Geographer anyway? (Part II)
By Brian Doucet
January 17, 2008
As I have mentioned previously, geography is a very broad term. In many regards, this is one of our strengths; as geographers, we study and learn about such diverse topics which enable us to learn from each other...
So what is a Geographer anyway? (Part 1)
By Brian Doucet
December 21, 2007
That’s not an easy question to answer. As someone who has studied
geography all my life, I find it difficult to convey exactly what our
discipline is to others. I was at a party recently, when someone asked
me what I studied...
