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Are Geography and Personality Related?
personality and geography
It is not a new idea to suggest that people of similar types usually cluster around a certain area, indicating that geographic distribution has some correlation to the personalities of the people that live in a specific location.[read more]
Rethinking Urban Geopolitics And Global Chicago
Washington, New York, and Chicago are becoming more important geopolitically than the United States is as a country. Chicago is rising fast as a geopolitical actor – think of the state visit by Chinese premier Hu Jintao.[read more]
Flat World Urban Geography
You don't have to live in the city to benefit from agglomeration and density. Knowledge networks are transnational, stateless. Geography is dead.[read more]
Tension Between People And Place
Geography is destiny. That observation isn't cause for celebration. It's a problem to be solved. People migrate to geographies of better opportunity.[read more]
Economic Geography Of Talent Production
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Last Monday, I posted a little something about the talent production clusters in Boston and Pittsburgh:Pittsburgh and Boston are the only two metros "dominated" by the higher education industry. I'd characterize them as talent production centers. Other metros may produce more talent. But that doesn't define them like it does Pittsburgh...[read more]
What Happened On The South Side?
One interesting pattern in large American cities is that the south sides of cities that are located below a city's central core are almost always blue collar, working class areas. South Boston. South Philly. South Baltimore. Southeast DC. The South Side of Chicago. Southwest Atlanta. South side of Houston. Lower Ninth Ward of New...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“I love the term "food rescuer". This is something I'd love to do and wish I'd done in college. My friend started bike co-ops and it would've been easy to add food onto the mission. We had weekly Sunday dinners and even rescuing food and serving it on Sunday would work. Thanks for sharing.Blog OnJanet”
“I love the term "food rescuer". This is something I'd love to do and wish I'd done in college. My friend started bike co-ops and it would've been easy to add food onto the mission. We had weekly Sunday dinners and even rescuing food and serving it on Sunday would work. Thanks for sharing.Blog OnJanet”