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Communication and Governance

Communication and Governance. 1860: Telegraph and Letters 1911: Airmail service 1917: Invisible ink banned / No useful information in letters 1940: Letters and diaries 1990: Email 2004: Freedom Calls 2010: Blogs / Skype. Excellent Data Resource: Worldmapper.

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Communication and Governance

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  1. Communication and Governance • 1860: Telegraph and Letters • 1911: Airmail service • 1917: Invisible ink banned / No useful information in letters • 1940: Letters and diaries • 1990: Email • 2004: Freedom Calls • 2010: Blogs / Skype

  2. Excellent Data Resource: Worldmapper Internet Users 2002 1990

  3. http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/GAD/map.html http://www.colorado.edu/ibs/GAD/ difmov.exe http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/GAD/spacetime.html

  4. Freedom House Map of Freedom 2010 http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=505 http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw10/FIW_2010_MOF.pdf

  5. Watersheds of the World–Population Density http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/water-resources/map-278.html

  6. Access to Safe Water • Nearly 1.1 billion people (20% of the world’s population) lack access to safe drinking water. • Kills almost 4,500 children per day. • Worst “water stressed” countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. • Climate and geography, lack of water systems and infrastructure, inadequate sanitation, high levels of arsenic and fluoride in drinking water. • Women and young girls trek as much as six miles everyday to retrieve water. • Obstacle to progress and development. http://www.worldwaterday.net/index.cfm?objectid=E38C787B-F1F6-6035-B9D8092D300B7548

  7. Water Scarcity and Stress

  8. SECOND SESSION

  9. http://www.cartoko.com/wiki/images/c/c4/Census_US_1940_Population_Distribution.jpghttp://www.cartoko.com/wiki/images/c/c4/Census_US_1940_Population_Distribution.jpg

  10. Urbanization Urban and Rural Places • Population size and density • Thomas Jefferson’s vision • Characteristics: anonymity, social interactions • Economic functions • Spatial arrangements • Special problems?

  11. Scranton, USGS 1891 http://www.cartoko.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:PA_scranton_15min_USGS_1891.jpg

  12. 1889

  13. Scranton, Pennsylvania http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?pp/PPALL:@field(NUMBER+@band(det+4a32356))

  14. Scranton, Pennsylvania – Google Earth http://www.maplandia.com/united-states/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/scranton/

  15. Urban Areas • Environmental determinism: role of physical features – site and situation • Centrifugal forces: impel functions to migrate from central zone beyond it periphery • Centripetal forces: hold certain function in central zone and attract others • Central place theory: size and distribution of settlements dominated by marketing function

  16. Central Place Theory http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/oxford/Oxford_Geography/0198606737.central-place-theory.1.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christaller's_central_place_theory_animation.gif

  17. CommonCensus Map Projecthttp://www.commoncensus.org/

  18. THIRD SESSION

  19. Immigration andWestward Expansion

  20. Auswanderer-karte und wegweiser nach Nordamerika Immigrant Map and Signpost/Directory to North America

  21. Where to settle?

  22. Where to settle?

  23. Immigrants as a Percentage of US Population

  24. Centers of Population http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/MeanCenter.html Mean Population Point Median Center of Population The numerical center of population, is in no sense a center of gravity. In determining the median point, distance is not taken into account and the location of the units of population is considered only in relation to the intersecting median lines - as being north or south of the median parallel and east or west of the median meridian. The center of population is the point at which an imaginary, weightless, rigid, and flat (no elevation effects) surface representation of the 48 conterminous states and the District of Columbia (or 50 states as appropriate to the computation) would balance if weights of identical size were placed on it so that each weight represented the location on one person.

  25. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mean_ctr_pop_US_1790-2000.pnghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mean_ctr_pop_US_1790-2000.png

  26. Thank you coga@uccs.edu www.uccs.edu/~coga

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