Tag: Geography

Lisbon: How Geography Shapes a Culture

Long before cities like Paris, Munich, and London began to emerge, one Western European city stood above the rest. Known for its culture, elegance, and community, this city was developed on seven hills surrounding the beautiful blue-teal waters of its harbor and beyond. Known for Fado music, melanch...

Geography of a Divorce

It’s fire season in southern California. I’m a month shy of 56, and regret is a fist in my gut. The imbalance of power between my husband and me is a sick thrill ride, and I don’t know how to get off. Maybe if I vomit someone will pull the lever. This morning my husband and I ar...

The geography of inequality

Inequality is one of the hottest topics these days and one particularly dear to my heart. As a French who lived in the UK for a year and in California for 5, I always find fascinating to try to understand how societies evolve and what values and social contracts they establish. Income (and w...

Strabo’s Geography — Mapping the world of the 1st Century CE

By the 1st century BCE, the world of antiquity under the rule of Rome, was perhaps more united than ever and was on a path to experiencing a golden age of knowledge and technology with social development hitting heights it would not see again for a thousand years or more. In this world of incre...

The 5 Things I Love the Most About Moving to Vancouver, British Columbia

Vancouver is regarded as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, a lot of that is due to its geography. Vancouver is a city where there is something for everyone. Here are my 5 favorite things about Vancouver: The mountains When I say the mountains, I mean both beautiful to look at and ...

Black imaginations in Black geography

Soon, suggested the posts from Instituto GUETTO (acronym for Urban Management for Entrepreneurship, Work and Organized Technology) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) with their invitation to imagine: an African library, a botanical pharmacy, an architecture school, a Bla...

Difference between geography, geology, geomatics, remote sensing and geoinformatics

Geography is a discipline that studies the Earth’s surface, its physical features, natural resources, climate, and human activities. It is concerned with the spatial patterns and interactions of natural and human phenomena on the Earth’s surface. Geography can be divided into two main br...