While often thought of as a process limiting movement undertaken by a particular nation, incarceration is actually a process filled with mobility and international relationships. Some US states collaborate with other nations around the globe to outfit their corrections department and make money showing off facilities and practices to their correctional officers. For example, Maryland’s […]
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New Website Content: Transcriptions
New transcriptions of Geographies of Racial Capitalism by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and A View From Federal Hill Revisited by David Harvey have just been added to the mapping.capital website. As part of a new resource series, these transcriptions are provided to make the content of the videos more accessible and to provide additional context for […]
For Transportation Beyond Commutes
Alongside my research on Baltimore’s bus system, as well as my larger interest in urban mobility infrastructure, spatial inequality, and the circulation of transit planning “best practice”, I have been wondering what de-commodified transportation might look like. What does public transit look like in a world without wage labor? What would a transportation system oriented […]
Digital Growth Machine Bibliography
On 1 March 2022, we moderated a series of sessions at the Annual Meeting of the AAG on the Digital Growth Machine. Each session yielded a number of suggested “further readings” which we collected here. As promised, here are the citations culled from the chat. Special thanks to Luis Alvarez León and Jovanna Rosen, who […]
Digital Growth Machine Sessions at the AAG
Feeding the Digital Growth Machine: Data, the city, and the urban process under digital capitalism Sponsored by the Digital Geography Specialty Group and the Urban Geography Specialty Group Organizers: Joe Gallagher (UMBC), Alicia Sabatino (UMBC), Evan Thomas (UMBC), Dillon Mahmoudi (UMBC), and John G Stehlin (UNCG) The growth machine has proven a durable concept for thinking about the capture of urban governance/policymaking by a class […]
Downloading National Block Group and Tract data using tidycensus
Getting national census data, with related geometry data to analyze, is more difficult than it should be. The various tools that have been released by Census Bureau are geared toward “advanced casual users” and not those doing spatial analysis. Older tools, like Data Ferrett, have been phased out while newer tools, like data.census.gov, are still […]