We're excited to help welcome internationally-renowned geographer Dr. Kevin Ward to Georgia State University as he takes the helm of Urban Studies Institute - Georgia State this fall! urbaninstitute.gsu.edu/2025/05/19/kev…

IT'S A THREE-PEAT!!! 🏆🏆🏆 A HUGE CONGRATS goes to GEOS M.S. student Lynesia Denson for winning 1st Place in the Georgia Geospatial Association's 2025 Student Map Competition, the third-straight student from our department to win the award! …tion-2025-gageospatial.hub.arcgis.com

On top of that, fellow GEOS M.S. student Hazel Pepperman took home 2nd Place, and Sophuth Phon and Imani Vincent also submitted their work to the competition! Congrats to all the GEOS students who participated! 💯👏

if you don't see why setting a waymo on fire is cool then i don't understand you

With 124 cameras per 1,000 residents, Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States. But because the Atlanta Police Department claims that releasing the locations of these cameras will lead to terrorism, we’ve not been able to map their locations... Until now.

With help from our friends at Atlanta Community Press Collective, we've mapped just the 4.2% of these 60,000+ cameras that are owned and operated by the city to give insight into the pervasive geography of surveillance here in Atlanta. Read more 👇👇 mappingatlanta.org/2025/06/09/cit…

Atlanta Community Press Collective But there’s no evidence that these surveillance cameras help to prevent or solve crime. Instead they serve to criminalize and suppress dissent, while funneling millions in public dollars to private corporations like Fusus and Flock Safety that enable fascists like ICE.

Today, Renee Tapp argues that attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. To address the high price of housing, we must see it for what it is: an antitrust issue. lpeproject.org/blog/prices-an…

They should consider getting a real job

This summer, eight amazing undergraduate researchers from across the country came to our department to conduct community-centered research on some of the most pressing environmental problems facing Atlanta communities. Get to know them below! 👇👇 geosciences.gsu.edu/2025/08/01/geo…

Housing markets are local. So when it comes to corporate landlordism, paying attention to geographic concentration matters. Taylor Shelton has done great work on this, e.g. - taylorshelton.info/publication/pr… taylorshelton.info/publication/ho…

To be sure, we did get one thing in abundance under Obama

Today is somehow the 10th anniversary of my dissertation defense, aka the time one of my committee members made a point of telling me that they were "highly offended" I hadn't cited my advisor

I made the cut!

bluegrass boys but we got big dreams