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#geography

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Fitheach

I looked up funny British placenames (most of them are in England). There are some crackers.

Examples:

Bell End
Bitchfield
Butthole Lane
Cockermouth
Cocks
Fanny Hands Lane
Fan Y Bîg
Fingeringhoe
Great Bottom Flash
Great Cockup
Lickey End
Pants
Piddle Valley
Pratts Bottom
Rotten Bottom
Scratch Arse Ware
Sheepy Magna
Shitterton
Slag Lane
Tickle Cock Bridge
Titty Ho
Twatt
Wetwang

BTW every one of these are real placenames.

#geography#England#Wales
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JdeB

#Rewilding #Australia #GreenCorridors

"How Australia Is Turning 10,000 km² of Desert Green" [11:05 min]
by TruGeo

youtube.com/watch?v=v8L5XUSOGM

Quote by TG:
"Mar 2, 2025 #australia #geography #reforestation
Australia is home to some of the harshest deserts on Earth—scorching heat, extreme drought, and landscapes that look almost extraterrestrial. But what if these barren lands could be transformed?
In this video, we dive into one of the most ambitious reforestation projects in the world: the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor. Spanning over 10,000 km², this initiative is restoring degraded farmland, planting millions of trees, and bringing life back to one of the driest places on Earth."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside #StopThePlunder
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature

YouTubeHow Australia Is Turning 10,000 km² of Desert GreenBy TruGeo
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Merlin Gillard 🚋😷

"To pay or not to pay: the role of fares in public transport"
Join us on March 20th for the final event of our 5-year project on #FareFreePublicTransport (FFPT), at LISER (#Luxembourg).

We'll bring together the state of the art of research into FFPT in Luxembourg, Europe and beyond.

Program & registration: liser.lu/to-pay-or-not-to-pay
If you’re not around, you can still join the opening and closing keynotes online! (Register to receive the link later)

#PublicTransport
#geography
#conference
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Announcement poster of the symposium (full text retranscibed here) 20 March Thusrday 9:30-17:30 Symposium To pay or not to pay: the role of fares in public transport Opening keynote Prof. Dr. Wojciech Keblowski * Vrije Universiteit Brussel Fare-free public transport as an urban policy: an international perspective Closing keynote Prof. Dr. Theresa Enright * University of Toronto Public, private, or common transportation? * On-site with virtual access (portraits of the speakers) The symposium marks the end of the LiFT project which focused on the policy of abolishing fares in public transport, otherwise known as fare-free public transport (FFPT). Although FFPT has become an established practice, discussed and implemented by policy-makers across Europe, it remains largely controversial and under-researched. The event will explore the transport, social, and political impacts of FFPT in Luxembourg and beyond. The symposium will present the main findings of the LiFT project with a focus on FFPT in Luxembourg among others, as well as findings from a selection of other studies in Europe (e.g., the 9-Euro ticket in Germany, or FFPT in French cities) about the role of fares in public transport. Participation is free, but registration is required. Location: Maison des Sciences Humaines (MSH) 11 Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette (campus Belval) Black Box (ground floor) Luxemboug Institute of Socio-Economic Research Vrije Universiteit Brussel (logos of the institutions)
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Merlin Gillard 🚋😷

"Actually Existing Geopolitics of Urban Knowledge Production. Questioning the ‘From Anywhere’ of Urban Theorising"
By F. Governa & C. Iacovone

"the #geography of the places studied contradicts any claims of post/decolonising urban theory, of ‘urban theorising from anywhere’, of Southern, #subaltern, alternative urban perspectives, and so on."

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.co

[map from the article]

Map (figure 3 of the article) showing the concentration of urban theory production. Urban theory production is mostly concentrated in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. Many countries in Africa and Western Asia have 0 production. China, Singapore, South Africa and Brazil have some production. More detailed explanations follow: It shows concentrations of the production of urban theory in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The rest of the production is mostly located in Europe, China, Singapore, South Afirca and Brazil. The map shows both countries (with a shade of grey) of publication and cities with their universities (with a circle diagram) were articles have been written. Many countries are completely "white" (especially in Africa and Western Asia, but also to a certain extent in South America): no articles at all from them are present in the sample. As described within the article: "Most theoretical articles come from the UK (29.4%), followed by the US (21.4%), Canada (10.7%), and Australia (6.5%). As it is visible in Figure 3, the rest of the list records mainly northern European countries, except for Italy and Greece, at the bottom. Asia is represented by China and Singapore; the Global South by South Africa (although, see the claim by Müller 2021 recalled on note 5), and Brazil with only 5 articles."
#KnowledgeProduction#UrbanStudies#DecolonialTheory
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Merlin Gillard 🚋😷

How are vertical flows of commuting governed, planned, shaped?
by D. McNeill and A. Connor

"The article’s contribution is in its conceptual and empirical illustration of how the rhythms of urban crowds are tracked, calculated and structured by a range of experts; in turn, we can see how these experts have emerged as significant agents in maximising the ability to extract value from the built volume of cities."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/
#geography #UrbanStudies

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Majd al-Shihabi 🏴 مجد الشهابي

I'm reading this 1956 essay by Carl O Sauer, titled "the education of a geographer". It's a beautiful meditation on the disciplinary incoherence of #geography as a discipline, which was true back then, and is even more true today.

It strikes me is that I only came across the essay a few days ago, and I'm a PhD student in geography.

I feel that every university degree should have a required course about the history of the discipline it studies.

sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.

sci-hub.seSci-Hub | THE EDUCATION OF A GEOGRAPHER. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 46(3), 287–299 | 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1956.tb01510.x
#AAG#academia
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Fedi.Garden 🌱

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#FeaturedServer#Maps#Cartography
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Calishat

#MapQuest #maps #geography #GulfOfMexico #ILegitCackled

"In a world where Apple Maps, Google Maps, and even Bing (yes, Bing) have bent the knee and rebranded the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, MapQuest has taken a different approach: pure, unfiltered chaos and hilarity. Introducing 'Name Your Own Gulf', the feature nobody asked for but everyone definitely needs."

geeksaresexy.net/2025/02/21/ma

Geeks are Sexy · MapQuest Enters Its Villain Arc, Hands You the Keys to Geography - Geeks are SexyIn a world where Apple Maps, Google Maps, and even Bing (yes, Bing) have bent the knee and rebranded the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, MapQuest has taken a different approach: pure, unfiltered chaos and hilarity. Introducing “Name Your Own Gulf”, the feature nobody asked for but everyone definitely needs. Ever dreamed […]
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Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱

Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs

"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": tni.org/en/article/the-emergin

@israel @geography 🧵

UAE Ports in Africa Dots placed all around Africa position logistic hubs for UAE.
#geography#CivilWar#Africa
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h o ʍ l e t t

→ Mapping the Middles of the United States
maps.com/mapping-the-middles-g

“The population center of the US has shifted considerably, moving from the East Coast in 1790 to southern Missouri by 2020.”

“[T]his #map demonstrates how that [middle] concept takes center stage in #geography. Whether by the inescapable march of time or the numerous ways we conceptualize and categorize the #world around us, there’s always more than one way to measure—and map it.”

Maps.com · Mapping the Middles of the United StatesEvery state has a middle. And there’s more than one way to measure that.
#population#US#East
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