Category Archives: urban studies

Life in and of the city

Black Kids on Bikes

By yvonnegrapher | Published: June 27, 2009
Once a month, a movement courses through the streets of Los Angeles. Moving together, in solidarity, Black cyclists are spurred forward by the revolutions of their wheels. Each individual coming together to join the flood that takes over the streets. Their momentum stirs the air, setting in motion a gale that blows clear across the [...]
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Tent City

By yvonnegrapher | Published: April 25, 2009
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?” The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?” Why indeed. Like [...]
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Human Geography: A New Journal

By yvonnegrapher | Published: February 21, 2008
Human Geography: A New Journal Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232 Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com Call for submissions and donations We are starting a new journal in Human Geography broadly [...]
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Emerging Geographies

By yvonnegrapher | Published: February 10, 2008
CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS: Emerging Geographies: Mapping, Tracking, and Tracing Conference Date: April 18, 2008 Deadline for submissions **has been extended** to February 20, 2008 Maps of worlds are often depicted as stories already told, already written. If we acknowledge these geographies as emerging and in process, how can we map, track, and trace these worlds as [...]
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