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Thanks for your input!
By Robert Libera
August 9, 2008
Our survey was up for about six weeks. We received a great response from our job seekers so I'd like to thank everyone for their time and effort...
So what is a Geographer anyway? (Part 1)
By Brian Doucet
December 21, 2007
That’s not an easy question to answer. As someone who has studied
geography all my life, I find it difficult to convey exactly what our
discipline is to others. I was at a party recently, when someone asked
me what I studied...
So what is a Geographer anyway (Part III)
By Brian Doucet
March 10, 2008
Chances are if you have studied geography, you have read a lot of literature written by people who are not geographers. Because the definitions of geography overlap onto many different other fields of study, it is only logical that some of the authors who are the most influential to our own discipline, come from other subjects...
So what is a Geographer anyway? (Part II)
By Brian Doucet
January 17, 2008
As I have mentioned previously, geography is a very broad term. In many regards, this is one of our strengths; as geographers, we study and learn about such diverse topics which enable us to learn from each other...
An introduction to gentrification Part I
By Brian Doucet
May 20, 2008
It doesn’t take much scanning through big city newspapers these days to come across articles about gentrification. From New York to Amsterdam to Toronto and beyond, old formerly working-class inner-city neighbourhoods have been transforming into trendy affluent places very quickly...
An introduction to gentrification Part II
By Brian Doucet
June 24, 2008
It doesn’t take much scanning through big city newspapers these days to come across articles about gentrification. From New York to Amsterdam to Toronto and beyond, old formerly working-class inner-city neighbourhoods have been transforming into trendy affluent places very quickly...
Olympics, events, and urban regeneration
By Brian Doucet
August 12, 2008
The Beijing Olympics are now upon us. They are an international celebration of sport, with the world’s best athletes coming together and all the world’s eyes fixed on them. But of course, the Olympics is far more than sport. For cities that bid for, and, if they are lucky enough, win the right to host the games, the stakes are just as high as for the athlete’s going for gold.
