Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Human Geography
See also: - Features membership details, board of directors, information on meetings and calls for papers, and contacts. - Portal features reference materials related to international borders and tripoints. Includes photos, links and news. - A report describing how the National Community Development Initiative (NCDI) has successfully helped underwrite the efforts of community development corporations (CDCs) around the United States. - Abstract of an article by Robert D. Feick and Dr. G. Brent Hall that describes integrating and visualizing spatial data sets for regional planning. The complete text of the article is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. - A catalog of US maps showing the cultural modification of the landscape as settlers established farmsteads and villages, and named their surroundings. - Lecture notes providing a discussion of the social landscapes of North America. - A gallery of pictures covering many aspects of cultural geography. - Promotes research in economic geography by organising meetings, developing contact and cooperation among geographers and other social scientists, and encouraging the publication of research. - Outlines several definitions of economic geography and discusses research issues related to the field. - Tomasz Zarycki argues that Polish electoral geography is based both on political ideology and elements of the spatial distribution of the population - H-Net discussion group dedicated to examining the intricate relationship between space and time. Features subject overview, archive and subscription information. - A research and bibliographic guide to UC Berkeley print and web resources for the study of the cultural geography of the United States. - Features information for current and prospective students, staff profiles, current research, publications, and contact details. Also offers links to related resources, career opportunities and calendar of events. - An article from the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science by Herbert Pick that discusses cross-cultural research into environmental knowledge and wayfinding behavior. - Home page of the International Boundaries Research Unit, (IBRU) located at the University of Durham. A source of information on boundary and territorial issues around the world. - Essays in historical and sports geography by Philip McEachern. - A web application that generates report files documenting a wide array of U.S. Geographic entities. - Discussion and examples of crime mapping. Features an overview of current research, publications, bibliography, and links to related sites. - A critical analysis of the literature surrounding the field of economic geography. - Historical overview of statistical atlases and census maps that express the cultural landscape of the United States. - An article that explains why landlocked nations may never enjoy access to the markets and new technologies they need to flourish in the global economy. - A research center at Rockefeller University that explores how long-run technical change relates to productivity and efficiency of energy, materials, land, and other resources, and the consequences for human populations. - A research project working to extend and refine the Clarke Urban Growth Model for making predictions at regional, continental and eventually global scales. - A laboratory for the study of geographic information technologies as they relate to transportation. Features project overview, links to related resources, job opportunities, and contact details. - Information on her research into climate politics, feminist science studies, food security and racism. Features abstracts of publications and curriculum vitae. - Essays by Luis Suarez-Villa, of the University of California, Irvine. Features sections devoted to the role of innovative capacity, tangible and intangible infrastructure, and a description of inversion at the metropolitan level - A report on geographic information about U.S. households and their energy usage from 1978 to 1997. - A paper by Larry Daniel that reviews the general characteristics of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) applied to site analysis. - A project developed to promote access to transport geography information. Includes material to support undergraduate courses, including articles, exercises, GIS-T datasets, and PowerPoint presentations. - An essay describing the concept of traditional maritime zones of transport in terms of human geography. - An international and interdisciplinary professional society that promotes the use of an ecological perspective in both research and application. - Article by Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman and Anthrony Venables that describes the dramatic increase in research on economic geography. Includes a discussion of spatial aspects of the Dixit-Stiglitz model of monopolistic competition. - An archive that provides the digitized boundary data associated with the 1991 Census of Population of the United Kingdom. - A discussion of how Philadelphia is trying to apply GIS (Geographic Information Systems) effectively to the complex circumstances that surround neighborhood planning in a troubled urban environment.
