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Category Archives: Geography & environment

Inuit living spaces

Monday, February 4, 2008

Béatrice Collignon – “From Igloos to Three Bedroom Houses: At the crossing of Architecture and Cultural Geography”
Tuesday February 5th, 2008, 12 noon
The “Pit”, School of Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa
In the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s the Canadian Inuit experienced an important shift in living patterns, moving from one multi-functional room igloos to houses brought [...]

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Academic spaces and citizen researchers

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Despite the fact that academics like to research all kinds of social spaces, there are hardly any studies of the social spaces where research is done. But every now and then we get glimpses, like this story about Parisian academics being “banished to the banlieues”:
The three institutions that are being turned out of their ancestral [...]

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When water becomes ice

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

No sooner had the Thames acquired a sufficient consistency than booths, turnabouts, etc. were erected, and puppet-shows, wild beasts, etc. transported from every adjacent village. Many thousands of persons crossed upon the ice from Tower Wharf to the opposite shore. The watermen broke in the ice close to the shore and erected bridges with toll-bars [...]

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City of ice

Friday, December 7, 2007

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- Anne

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Places we had never heard of but that matter: Ilulissat

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Ilulissat glacier is melting at record rates. It is a likely poster-child for climate change in the North, a figure for the sudden acceleration in the pace at which ice is melting in Canada’s Arctic Archipelago, the Northwest Passage and the polar icecap. Thanks to Michael, there are some amazing images here. [...]

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