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Category Archives: Mobilities

What should we do with GIS?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]

Also filed in Cities & urbanism, Embodiment & performance, Mapping, Media & communications, Spatiality & temporality, Techno-science | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Where cars go to wait

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Guardian.co.uk: Growing stocks of unsold cars around the world
Carmakers around the world are cutting production as inventories build up to unprecedented levels. Storage areas and docksides are now packed with vast expanses of unsold cars as demand slumps.”

“Unsold cars at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol, UK.”

“Newly imported cars fill the 150-acre site at the Toyota distribution [...]

Also filed in Economics, Material culture, Production & consumption | | Comments (2)

Responding to the Ottawa transit strike

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ottawa transit strike brings city to a standstill:
At 12:01 AM on December 10th, buses stopped moving in Ottawa as the over 2,200 members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 279 officially went on strike, while at the same time over 30 centimetres of snow was falling and one of the four bridges linking Ottawa and [...]

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Politics, invisibilities and mobilities

Friday, October 24, 2008

Autonomous Geographies
A two year action research project run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester. We use the term autonomous geographies to define ‘…those spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective forms of politics, identity and citizenship, which are created through a combination of resistance and [...]

Also filed in Cities & urbanism, Climate & environment, Power & resistance | | Comments (4)

Water, Like Traffic

Friday, September 19, 2008

Waterfall off Edmonton’s High Level Bridge to mark the Centennial of the University of Alberta September 19 2008.   Mobility, Flow, Prairie Bigness, liquid fireworks, a free car wash.
-Rob

Also filed in Architecture, North America | Tagged , , | Comments (1)