Human Geography regularly focuses on the social and economic factors of communities. Below is a great topical case study of the Socio-economic geography in the UK. happy Jubilee! Article Eric Pickles today announced extra funding to ensure that communities are not left out of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this summer. With one month to go …
Category Archive: Scales
May 10 2012
The Geography of Internet Censorship
It’s amazing how human geography has been turned inside out by the Internet. The GeoPolitical side of the internet can be seen through censorship: check out the article here Tweet
May 08 2012
Article: Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work: geotag example
A great example of geotagging in action here. Eric Fischer has mapped the geotags from Twitter to show New York’s social media backbone: http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/nyc-geotagged-tweets/ (Sent from Flipboard) Tweet
Jan 02 2012
1 to 7 billion People. In 200 Years.
I found this great infographic by NPR a while back and thought I’d share it with all of you. It’s a beautiful video describing the ‘exponential’ population growth that we’ve experienced in the past two centuries. The simplicity of and visualisation methods of the video give a very clear way of showing just how quickly our population …
Dec 31 2011
A2 AQA Revision Note – Multinational Companies
First of all, Happy New Year ;D!! I wish the best for all of you and good luck keeping those new year resolutions ~ In the AQA A2 Geography exam (unit 3), the topic of multinational companies (or TNCs – Transnational companies depending on your preference) plays a relatively large role in the globalisation and …
Sep 12 2011
Example of Globalisation Today – Iphone
Now, after doing my AS Level in Geography on the board AQA, I’ve come to find that globalisation isn’t a big topic for the AS half of the AQA Geography A-Level. However, it does play a huge role in geography as a whole and especially in the A2 half of the AQA Geography qualification. I …
Jul 22 2011
Trade from USA to China?
It seems like these days, everything that we own is imported from China, the infamous “Made in China” comes of no surprise to anyone on any product these days. However, there’s a company in the USA that appears to be reversing this trend. With China being the biggest user of chopsticks, the demand for chopsticks is, unsurprisingly, very …
Jul 18 2011
2011 Index of Economic Freedom – International Countries
A little while back I found an interesting article on Tutor2u about this index which ranks 183 countries on measures such as trade freedom, investment freedom, business freedom, and property rights. The index divides countries up into five categories, based on their scores (shown below); Interestingly, there are only 6 countries that are defined as “FREE” (score …
Jul 14 2011
Geography of UK Crime: Are you safe?
Public data has gone from strength to strength in the past decade and today saw the release of the annual British Crime Survey for 2010/11 results. This survey has led to to some interesting reading, with an interactive map making the data that little bit more interactive. All of the geographic data used to make this …
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