For frequent travelers to Europe, it is frustrating to see the increasingly different urban conditions on the other side of the Atlantic.
Is it true or not? What do we really know about Global Warming and Climate Change?People who deny Climate Change is real say it is a scam hyped by environmentalists and clean energy proponents who want to tax petroleum out of existence. On the opposite side of the issue are those who ...
In fact, in the last 20 years, the average annual increase in local govern- ment expenditures in the United States has been 25 times the annual Costs of Sprawl projection. Econometric Analysis. The source of data for this paper is the United States Bureau of the Cen- sus database for ...
Facing Hong Kong Island on the opposite side of Victoria Harbour, Kowloon is a host of lively neighborhoods and areas: Tsim Sha Tsui and Tsim Sha Tsui Eastare at the very core of it. There's of course the bustling and gaudy Golden Mile in contrast to the chic and dashing vistas of the...
Moving to Austin is the geographical equivalent of saying: “I don’t read the news anymore.” The people moving here are tired of others telling them what to think, which is why the people here are so much less likely to police your speech. That’s basically why I’ve stayed here too...
France and Germany. In thePlace de la Républiqueis a statue of a mother holding her two dying sons, one facing Germany, the other facing France. And while it took time for the population to heal from the effect of two World Wars, the city now manifests a geography of reconciliation...
Have you ever had the feeling that someone is watching you? You look around and lock eyes with the person, then quickly break eye contact so as to avoid embarrassment on either side. Well this tends to happen quite often in Costa Rica, except that the pair of beady eyes staring back at...
SprawlMap analyzed street network patterns from OpenStreetMap globally to evaluate their level of disconnectedness, and then complemented that analysis with other data on the geographic expansion of urban areas over the past 30 years. The results highlight a worrying trend: sprawl is accelerating ...
Land take is the transformation of agricultural, natural and semi-natural spaces into urban and other artificial uses. It is closely linked to urban sprawl (low-density or dispersed urban development). Land take is a major environmental challenge, especially for biodiversity conservation, as it ...