GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

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“Jane Jacobs is variously known as the guru of cities, an urban legend—“part analyst, part activist, part prophet.” In the more than forty years since the publication of her groundbreaking book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), her influence has been extraordinary—not only on architects, community workers, and planners but also on Nobel Prize–winning economists and ecologists. As one critic recently put it, “Jacobs’s influence confirms that books matter. It isn’t easy to cite another writer who has had a comparable impact in our time.” A couple of years ago, she won the top American award for urban planning, the Vincent Scully Prize. This in itself was unusual, not only because she regularly vilifies planners, but also because with the exception of the Order of Canada and a few other prizes, she typically turns down awards—some thirty honorary degrees, including one from Harvard. Jacobs herself wasn’t interested in finishing university—she went to Columbia for just two years.”

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Simple, effective tutorial to explain some of the mechanics to informed twitter useage.

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Report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 2011 was a record year for Palestinian displacement.

This infographic comes from the group http://visualizingpalestine.org  This corresponds with the UN’s recent statement that Gaza ‘will not be liveable by 2020’ given Israeli policies as reported by the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19391809

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Explore and vote on the best Google Maps satellite imagery around the world.

Much like sites that you can rate items up or down, you can rate the best aerial photography via Google Earth screen shots.  There are some beautiful images and places to be discovered through this site.  The physical and human landscapes are both intermingled in this fantastic collection of images…be careful, it can be amazingly addictive.  For more from the producer of this site, see: http://paulrademacher.com or follow on twitter @paulrademacher.

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Some of my personal additions to this gallery include:

1. the Paseo de la Reforma sector of Mexico City,

2. Hamburg, Germany,

3. Venice, Italy,

4. Cape Cod, MA,

5. Drumlin city of Friedrichshafen-Raderach in Southwest Germany,

6. a meteor create lake, Pingualuit Lake in Northern Quebec,

7. the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia,

8. the Great Salt Lake, UT,

9. Citadella, Italy,

10. Mexican Hat, Utah,

11. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (zoom out for a fire-ravaged image)

12. the “Twelve Apostles” in Australia.

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The natural landscapes shown as captured by satellite imagery is as beautiful as anything artists have ever created.  Some of the colors shown in the video may seem otherworldy.  Most of those color anomalies are due to the fact that remotely sensed images have more information in them than just what we see in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Some of these images are processed to show different bands so we can visually interpret data such as what is in the near infra-red band, skewing the color palette.

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You can see the effects of political climates over the history of the “modern” Olympics

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