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Cartography
Maps as arguments — projection, classification, and the power of the view from above.
Economy · 19 essaysEconomic geography
How money, trade, and production shape the land — and vice versa.
Energy · 0 essaysEnergy policy
The regulatory, political, and economic choices that govern how energy is produced and distributed.
Energy · 0 essaysEnergy systems
Generation, transmission, storage, and the political economy of power.
Geography · 2 essaysEnvironmental geography
The intersection of human systems and natural ones — land, air, water, and what we do to them.
Places · 3 essaysHealth geography
Where care is available, where it is not, and what that distance costs in health outcomes.
Geography · 2 essaysHistorical geography
How places were shaped by the past — settlement patterns, resource extraction, and long slow change.
Geography · 1 essaysHuman geography
Population, migration, access, and the spatial patterns of how people live.
Systems · 2 essaysInfrastructure
The built systems that move people, goods, energy, and information across space.
Systems · 0 essaysModelling
Building, calibrating, and arguing with models that try to describe the world.
Systems · 3 essaysMonitoring
Sensors, networks, and the infrastructure of knowing what is happening where.
Geography · 7 essaysPhysical geography
Landforms, climate, and the natural processes that make places what they are.
Places · 0 essaysPlaces
Field notes, town visits, and the texture of specific locations.
Systems · 0 essaysRisk
Hazard, vulnerability, exposure: how we put numbers on uncertain futures.
Systems · 0 essaysSpatial data
Pipelines, formats, and the small decisions that decide what data is worth keeping.
Economy · 0 essaysTrade policy
Tariffs, agreements, and the political economy of how goods cross borders.
Geography · 4 essaysUrban geography
Cities, density, and the spatial logic of how people cluster and move.
Geography · 0 essaysWatersheds
Drainage, flow, and how we draw the lines around moving water.
Places · 0 essaysWestern Canada
Prairie, foothills, boreal, port — the geography of the Canadian West.