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OnlineFirst - "An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city" by Bregje van Veelen and @SarahEKnuth: LUCSUS_LU Geography at Durham #masstimber #urbanbioeconomy #sociotechnicalimaginaries #plyscraper journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Census Tract 9901, Skagit County, Washington

Not your typical Mississippi River map, this fascinating 1960 chart shows the amount of inland freight tonnage moving up and down the river and its tributaries! Zoom in closer here: loc.gov/resource/g4042…

I couldn't be more excited to share the cover of Kyle Chayka's FILTERWORLD, out from Doubleday in Jan 2024. A hugely revelatory look into how algorithms shape not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced-- and the unsettling empty sameness that results

OakDOT Killing Grand Avenue Road Diet at AC Transit’s Request sf.streetsblog.org/2023/07/18/oak…

Day 1 | 🌅 1: Manissa M Maharawal, mieko, Tianyi Tang 2: Isabelle Anguelovski, Jiaqi Wang, Kasey Zapatka, Sara Martucci 3: @EOscilowicz, Raúl Marino Zamudio, Safaa Monqid, Jacob Boersema 4: Will B. Payne, @K_Santellano, Hesu Yoon, Hakeem Bishi 5: Reina Murray, Karen Chapple, Galia Shokry

Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? Qingqing Chen, Matthew Zook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.

I have a piece in the latest NYRB that tries to think through the material basis of Silicon Valley Trumpism nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Kicking off the academic year with a new paper in Social Forces 🥳 Coauthored with the wonderful Rebecca Anna Schut and Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH, we find that FQHCs are associated with improved health care access for migrant farmworkers, particular those who are undocumented doi.org/10.1093/sf/soa…

How can we track rising #corporate #investor #ownership of #residential properties? Rutgers University professors Eric Seymour, Kathe Newman, & Will B. Payne are converting non-spatial tax data into a spatial dataset, uniting it w/ #housing and #mortgage data. policylab.rutgers.edu/making-sense-n…

New article out Big Data & Society (*open access*) looking at political speech in local reviews (mostly Yelp w/ some discussion of Google Maps), considering the spatial structure and social implications of "review bombing" w/2 case studies (#pizzagate & #blm): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Dr. Will B. Payne used #spatiotemporal analysis of #Yelp #review activity to depict and analyze the shifting catchment areas of local businesses, as measured through the locations of their reviewers over time and across review categories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

How do you create a political community in the most diverse county in the USA? In this article, James DeFilippis & Elana Simon explore this by looking at electoral politics in Queens, NY tinyurl.com/2dcuacse

How can digital platforms like TripAdvisor turn nature into tourism commodities? Using digital environmental biopower to classify and rank natural areas, Juan P Astaburuaga, agnieszka leszczynski, & Gaillard highlight the biopolitical impact on conservation in Chile. bit.ly/3TSLdch

Excited to see this out in Digital Geography & Society! Fun and insightful to examine mundane file formats through the mode of production. This paper looks at the histories of GeoJSON and the Esri Shapefile. doi.org/10.1016/j.digg…

Tomorrow (10/29): CEGU welcomes Professor Julie Michelle Klinger for her talk, "Wasting & Wanting: An Extractive Supply Chain Approach to Outer Space Geographies." See below or visit our website for details.

Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of #RentalProperties and platform rentierisation by Dallas Rogers, @SophiaMaalsen, Peta Wolifson & @FieldsDesiree ow.ly/blQ650TSrZg #OpenAccess #BuiltToRent

Dr. Will Payne Will B. Payne was featured on Rutgers Today for his #research about #review #bombing published in Big Data & Society. “Simply put, everything you think you know about review bombing is wrong.” Read more: rutgers.edu/news/not-all-r…

Tech firms shape cities to generate data for their digital products, creating a feedback loop: they invest in urban property & design spaces that capture and reinforce consumer preferences. New open-access paper w/ Anthony Levenda & Alicia Sabatino sciencedirect.com/science/articl…