Taiwan Maps and DatavizMay 14

Taiwan is famous for convenience stores on nearly every corner. But when adjusted for population, the pattern becomes more interesting.

The east coast has a higher convenience store density than southern Taiwan, and Matsu reaches an extraordinary 132 stores per 100,000 people due to its very small population base. 🇹🇼

#Taiwan #DataVisualization #Cartography #urbangeography

Taiwan Maps and DatavizApr 19

More than 23 million people live in Taiwan, but the population is far from evenly distributed.

In fact, about half of the population is concentrated in just a small number of districts, mainly in major urban areas.

#Taiwan #UrbanGeography #PopulationDensity #DataVisualization #maps

1moreminFeb 18

Satellite view of the Great Black Canyon and the surrounding Moss Plains in Concrete County.

#urbangeography
#moss

Sam GrinsellJan 12

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

New post on infrastructure, fishing, and the links between land and sea. Jointly published by NiCHE and The Metropole:

https://niche-canada.org/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

https://themetropole.blog/2026/01/12/the-making-of-grimsbys-dock-tower-the-entanglements-of-infrastructural-relations/

#UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #environment #EnvHist #EnvHums #BritishHistory #fish #Infrastructure #fishing #history #histodons

The Making of Grimsby’s Dock Tower: The Entanglements of Infrastructural Relations

Grimsby Dock Tower exemplifies nineteenth-century infrastructure linking land, sea, commerce, and ecology, revealing buildings as nodes within global circulation systems.

NiCHE
TomDec 26
Stratified Fault Lines

Basel developed slowly over centuries, shaped by trade, craft, and a dense medieval fabric that privileged continuity over rupture. For a long time, the city grew organically, expanding its borders without fundamentally disrupting its horizontal scale or human proportions. In the late 20th and early 21st century, Basel repositioned itself as an international hotspot for architecture, culture, and the life sciences. This shift introduced a new urban logic. Landmark projects and global actors began to reshape the city’s image, culminating in the vertical presence of the Roche towers. Rising behind the low roofs of the old town, they embody efficiency, power, and contemporary ambition. Their scale does not merge with the historical city but stands against it, exposing a structural tension between accumulated urban time and deliberate architectural intervention. What emerges is not a harmonious skyline, but a stratified cityscape where horizontal continuity and vertical assertion coexist without resolution.

Mood: Transient – Higher Than The Sky

#UrbanPhotography #ArchitecturePhotography #UrbanGeography #Basel
EugeneNov 13, 2025

🏔️ How high is your community?

Using the MRDEM-2024 elevation model, I mapped the average elevation for each Calgary community.
The result clearly shows how the city “steps down” from the western uplands toward the Bow and Elbow River valleys in the east and south.

🔹 The highest areas — around Tuscany, Rocky Ridge, and Cougar Ridge — rise over 1,240 m above sea level.
🔹 The lowest zones — Shepard, McKenzie Towne, and parts of the southeast — drop to about 1,000 m.

It’s a great reminder that Calgary’s landscape still reflects its glacial past — a city built on terraces, slopes, and ancient river plains.

#Calgary #Alberta #Geography #Geospatial #QGIS #OpenData #UrbanGeography #DataVisualization #Topography #Geomorphology #Canada #DEM

Sam GrinsellNov 6, 2025
Returning here to share an article I recently published in Urban History. I argue for a deeper, more playful engagement between urban historians and the environmental humanities if we are to address the ecological crises of our times. 'Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity' https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history/article/urban-history-as-urgent-work-an-argument-for-disciplinary-promiscuity/5F09F423B1EAB5C89F3F1BC46D6DCBD4 #environment #EnvHum #Anthropocene #UrbanHistory #UrbanGeography #History #OpenAccess
Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity | Urban History | Cambridge Core

Urban history as urgent work, an argument for disciplinary promiscuity

Cambridge Core
csOct 12, 2025
How to build a better city - Think
“What we prioritize in our cities impacts how we work, live and play. In this episode, host Krys Boyd talks to three experts about creating a walkable city, how zoning codes are quietly shaping your daily life, and the ways that urban green spaces can promote biodiverse wildlife.” #UrbanPlanning #UrbanLandscape #Architecture #UrbanGeography #Zoning
https://think.kera.org/2025/10/08/how-to-build-a-better-city/
How to build a better city - Think

Host Krys Boyd talks to three experts about walkable cities, zoning, and biodiversity in urban green spaces.

Think -
@envplaneJul 8, 2025

OnlineFirst - "BIG U(nicorn)?: The nature of nature in coastal resilience planning" by @emdupuis:

#coastalresilience #climatechange #climatecrisis #criticalgeography #urbangeography #criticalsustainability #infrastructure #sustainability #cities #water #sealevelrise #geosky

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251351478

Angie ManginoJul 3, 2025
Untapped New York explores the forgotten islands that surround NYC - nearly thirty named islands that most people, including native New Yorkers, don't even know exist. The article examines eleven islands united by themes of abandonment and obscurity, many once inhabited by individuals or institutions, but now erased from public memory. #UrbanGeography #AbandonedPlaces #NYC #Islands #ForgottenHistory #Geography
https://www.untappedcities.com/8-abandoned-islands-near-nyc/?ref=daily-newsletter
11 Abandoned Islands Near NYC - Untapped New York

A round-up of New York's most obscure abandoned islands, which have housed drug addicts, the infirm, sharks, crazy investors, and a makeshift navy.

Untapped New York