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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
wiley   +1 more source

Fontes e técnicas da cartografia medieval portulano

open access: yesTerra Brasilis, 2015
This paper proposes a reflection on the question of the sources in the historical analysis of medieval cartographic representation from the cartographic genre Portulano considered technical basis of Renaissance Cartography.
Magali Gomes Nogueira, Mario de Biasi
doaj   +1 more source

School cartography in Brazil and its inclusive perspective

open access: yes, 2020
This article presents an overview of School Cartography in Brazil, demonstrating how academic research in the area has influenced official documents proposed by the Ministry of Education, the teaching of Cartography in Basic Education, and the curricula ...
Waldirene Ribeiro do Carmo   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Historical cartography of Muscovy: symbols and emblems

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2019
Abstract The article is devoted to the historical cartography of Moscow kingdom of the 16- 17th centuries and symbolic emblematic designation of Muscovy and adjacent territories. Four types of heraldic emblems were revealed. Some of them have various own versions. The rider was used by cartographers only in the 16th century.
openaire   +1 more source

Reusing Geospatial Data of Invasive Alien Insect Species From the Literature: Significance, Challenges, and Potential

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We use bibliometric analysis to evaluate geospatial data reuse for invasive alien insect species (IAIS). Of 1032 relevant publications, 51.0% lacked downloadable raw data. Integrating cross‐regional, temporal, and multi‐species data could address single‐study limitations, but data scarcity remains a barrier.
Shuhao Tan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ptolemy’s Revenge: A Critique of Historical Cartography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This article calls for a new approach to historical cartography. Arguing that cartographic presentism obscures the local geographies of the past, the author reviews the imagery of current historical mapping as geocentric and presentistic.
Schafer, Wolf
core   +1 more source

Cartography (and Geoinformation) in Education in Austria

open access: yes, 2006
The basic task of cartography lies in efficient and impeccable transfer of spatial information via cartographic models of geospace. Wired and wireless communication networks serve this purpose.
Lechthaler, Mirjanka
core   +3 more sources

Hillfort near the Village of Vyrsk

open access: yesИсторико-географический журнал
This article is devoted to the methodological and editorial issues of the formation and use of conventional signs when carrying out historical and cartographic work.
А. V. Deduk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cartography and the craft of seventeenth-century prose

open access: yes
This thesis is an examination of the influence of practical geography and cartography, as taught in the English universities, on seventeenth-century prose.
Allott, Flynn Oscar
core   +1 more source

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