Articles tagged with: cities
U.S. Electoral Geography: An Urban/Rural Divide?
As noted in an earlier GeoCurrents post, most states remain more “purple” than “red” or “blue”, whereas on the county level the situation is quite different, with differentiation into Democratic and Republican voting localities becoming ever more pronounced. It should also be noted that many of the counties that went overwhelmingly for one candidate or another are demographically homogeneous. For …
More on Smart Cities
Last month, GeoCurrents wrote about a ranking of “smartest cities” in the U.S. published by the Business Journals website. Recently, a more direct metric for measuring the “brain performance” or cognitive capacity of various locales has become available.
And the Smartest U.S. Cities Are…
The Business Journals website has released a list of “smartest cities”. In this ranking, educational attainment in 269 U.S. urban centers with 100,000 or more residents were considered. Unsurprisingly, the top three spots are occupied by the three of America’s best-known college towns: Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cambridge; and Berkeley, California.
The Siberian Curse: Whither Siberia?—part 3
Siberia is often considered too big, too cold, and too polluted to be of much value. Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy recommend that Russia shrinks its economic geography by encouraging massive migration from Siberia to European Russia and manning extractive operations east of the Ural Mountains on the “tour of duty” basis. The remainder of this article focuses on the issues that have been unnoticed, purposefully ignored, or misrepresented by Hill and Gaddy, thus helping to explain why Russians in general continue to view Siberia as a blessing rather than a curse.
The Siberian Curse: Whither Siberia?—part 2
As discussed in the preceding GeoCurrents post, Siberia is often considered too big and too cold; and as mentioned in an earlier GeoCurrents post, it is also too polluted. Such problems made Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy, the authors of The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold, quip that “Siberia has been a rich …
Terranova: The Black Petaltail - A Novel
Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (5th Edition)
Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World (3rd Edition)
