Human Geography

Human Geography – Links Page

1) Links to sites related to sections of the course
Introduction - Culture - Population - Migration - Language - Religion - Agriculture - Urban - Development - Economic - Political

2) Other areas within geography
Transportation – Geographic Information Systems – Exploration – Regional/Atlases - Physical Geography

Introduction and Culture

Web site dedicated to John Snow, who used "GIS" (as it existed in the 1850s) to study the spatial distribution of disease.
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow.html

The Changing Face of Postville

http://www.gazetteonline.com/special/postville/index.htm

Gullah Culture in Danger of Fading Away

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/06/0607_wiregullah.html

Sequent Occupance by Derwent Whittlesey

http://people.uncw.edu/hinese/GGY_473/SEQUENT%20OCCUPANCE.htm

Culture Dominance Drives Anti-Globalization Sentiment

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/citizen/07feb00/tard0207.html

History of the US Cultural Environment

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/cult.html

Population

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov

CensusScope: Your portal to Census 2000 data

http://www.censusscope.org

U.S. Census Bureau: 2001 Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/stat-ab01.html

Recent (January 2000) Census Bureau report on Geographical Mobility (PDF file)
http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p20-538.pdf

Other publications on population available from the Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/popula.html

GeoLytics: Where to get free census data

http://www.geolytics.com/freedatainfo/wherefreedata.html

ISU Census Services - census data, related publications
http://socserver.soc.iastate.edu/census

This site includes the document we reviewed in class: "Iowa's Changing Population: A Brief Review of Trends"
http://socserver.soc.iastate.edu/census/Data/Iowa/Iowa%20Trends%20Mar%202001.pdf

IntlPop - an international population simulation program -- from Project GeoSim
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/huip.html

Forecast Sees Halt to Population Growth by End of Century
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0806_population.html

Male Population Grew Faster Than Female Population Census 2000 Analysis Shows
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01cn181.html

The Spatial Abandonment and Spatial Clustering of the Elderly in the United States (article in Geography Online)
http://www.siue.edu/GEOGRAPHY/ONLINE/shaw.htm

Population Profile of the US: 2000

http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile2000.html

Yale University Library: Social Sciences Library and Information Services

http://www.library.yale.edu/socsci/subjguides/demography/

6 Billion Human Beings

http://www.popexpo.net/english.html

Forecast Sees Halt to Population Growth by End of Century

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0806_population.html

U.S. Census: World’s Third Largest County Adds 33 Million

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/04/0412_census.html

Ten Myths of Population

http://208.245.156.153/archive/outputgo.cfm?ID=730

Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

http://ciesin.org/

CIESIN: Demographic Data Cartogram, U.S. Census Data for GIS Users

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddcarto/

Gridded Population of the World

http://www.ciesin.org/datasets/gpw/globldem.doc.html

Access to U.S. Demographic Data- Data and Applications for Analysis and Mapping of U.S. Population

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/demog/

Demography and the Social Contract

http://opr.princeton.edu/papers/opr0204.pdf

The International Society of Malthus

http://desip.igc.org/malthus/index.html

The Older Foreign-Born Population in the U.S.-2000

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/p23-211.pdf

Demographics and the Global Future

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1291056

Asian and Asian-American Populations in the U.S. 2000

http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf

Waterloo Courier- “New Figures indicate area population loss”

http://www.wcfcourier.com/metro2001/020430figures.html

The Population Institute: Overpopulation

http://www.populationinstitute.org/teampublish/71_234_621.cfm

Population decline hurts rural housing

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/19457239.html

Declining Birth Rate Worries MOI (Taiwan)

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/10/15/000175736

The Population Explosion is Over

http://www.aei.org/ra/rawatten4.htm

Migration

Article in The Economist (a British newsmagazine) on immigration to Iowa
http://www.uni.edu/~strausst/us0020.html

MigModel, a migration modeling and simulation program -- from Project GeoSim
http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/mmod.html

CNN special report: “Human Trade: The Fastest-Growing Crime”

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/immigration/stories/human.trade/

Migration News

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/index.html

Assembling the Future- How International Migrants are Shaping the 21^st Centruy

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00074B04-D03A-1CC5-B4A8809EC588EEDF&pageNumber=1&catID=2

Urbanization and Migration

http://www.unfpa.org/modules/briefkit/07.htm

Language

Phonological Atlas of North America
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/

A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html

The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html

American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org/

The Dictionary of American Regional English
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

Differences between American and British English
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/american.html

City Comparisons
http://www.slanguage.com/compare.html

In Search of the First Language - transcript of Nova program
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2120glang.html

Real Player NPR Interview with William Labov of the Phonological Atlas effort
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/atc/19990312atc08.rmm

U.S. News & World Report Article on Regional Changes in Language
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/usnews/usnews1.jpg (page 1)
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/usnews/usnews2.jpg (page 2)

History of Words and Language, from Suite101.com
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/history_of_words

The Word Spy-find out definitions of new words or old words revived

http://www.logophilia.com

“Regional Accents: Professor Believes Americans are Sounding Less Alike than Ever Before”

http://www.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_990903_accents_feature.html

Translation guide to talk like the locals

http://www.slanguage.com

Indigenous Language Institute

http://www.indigenous-language.org/

Religion

American Religion Data Archive

http://www.thearda.com/arda.asp?Show=Home

Agriculture

Section on the Geography of Agriculture from About.com
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022398.htm

Economic Forces Shaping the Rural Heartland
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/heartlnd/hrtmain.htm

Where Have All the Packing Plants Gone? The New Meat Geography in Rural America
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er99q3.htm#drabenstott

U.S. Agriculture at the Crossroads in 1999
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er99q1.htm#crossroads

This Little Piggy Went To Market: Will The New Pork Industry Call the Heartland Home?
http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/econrev/er98q3.htm#drabenstott

Hog prices: Nowhere to go but up
http://www.agcom.purdue.edu/AgCom/news/backgrd/990402.Hurt.porkprices.html

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at Iowa State University
http://www.fapri.iastate.edu/

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) publications at Iowa State University

http://www.fapri.iastate.edu/publications.html

Center for Agricultural and Rural Development

http://www.card.iastate.edu/

“Tourism and Hog Farms Clash”

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4789013/16447909.html

Geography of Agriculture at about.com

http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022398.htm

Center for Rural Affairs

http://www.cfra.org

Urban Geography

The National League of Cities

http://www.nlc.org

‘Boomburbs’ mark an era of sprawl

http://www.msnbc.com/news/590942.asp?cp1=1

USGS Rocky Mountain Mapping Center, Urban Growth and Land Use Modeling

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/html/growth/

USGA: Middle Rio Grande Basin Study- Albuquerque Urban Area

http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/public/mrgb/alb_urbarea.html

Best Practices Database- this searchable database contains over 1100 proven solutions to common social, economic, and environmental problems of an urbanizing world.

http://www.bestpractices.org/cgi-bin/bp98.cgi?cmd=page&page=main399

Welcome to the Green Map System

http://www.greenmap.com/

Report on Urban Regeneration in the United Kingdom

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m3575/1230_206/55778096/print.jhtml

The Image Place- 105 images for Urban Geography, Urban Planning, and Urban History

http://www.theimageplace.net/index.htm

Urban Land Use: Residential Patterns and Change

http://www.uncc.edu/~hscampbe/landuse/a-intro/intro.html

Medalus Research

http://www.medalus.demon.co.uk/

Two Perspectives on Sprawl

http://www.plannersweb.com/wfiles/w205.html

The Process, Patterns, and Functions of Human Settle

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/standards/12/

Three Models of Urban Land Use

http://www.uncc.edu/~hscampbe/landuse/b-models/B-3mods.html

EPA: Smart Growth

http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/

Sprawl City

http://www.sprawlcity.org/index.html

Urban Planning, 1794-1918: 185 primary documents dealing with urban planning

http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm

The Polis Center: an academic research center focused on urban issues

http://www.polis.iupui.edu/polis/home.htm

Columbia, Irvine, and The Woodlands: Planning Lessons from Three US New Towns in the 1960’s & 70’s

http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/dl/117_forsyth02web.pdf

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment

http://www.sage.wisc.edu/

Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb

http://tigger.uic.edu/%7Epbhales/Levittown.html

Online Planning Resources

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sbe/planbiblios/

Public Policy Institute of California

http://www.ppic.org/publications/CalCounts13/calcounts13.press.html

Suburb’s Growth Moves Westward

http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4780932/19423090.html

Urbanization and Migration

http://www.unfpa.org/modules/briefkit/07.htm

Human Sprawl Covering the Planet

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/population/population.jsp?id=ns99992315

Historic Cities

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html

Ruavista: Exploring the city and urban areas through signs, street graphics, architecture, etc.

http://www.ruavista.com

Living on the Edge: Decentralization within Cities in the 1990s

http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/berubeformanedge.pdf

American Planning Association

http://www.planning.org

Development

Human Development Reports

http://www.undp.org/hdro

Economic Geography

Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2000

http://www.bls.gov/opub/gp/laugp.htm

The Best and Worst States to Run a Small Biz

http://www.bcentral.com/articles/harper/141.asp?cobrand=msn&LID=3800

Iowa Workforce Development: Labor Force Data

http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/laborforce/index.html

Iowa Workforce Development: Iowa Wage Surveys

http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/occupations/wages2001/index.html

State of Working Wisconsin 2002 Report

http://www.cows.org/currently/archive/files/soww2002/soww2002.pdf

The National Climatic Data Center: research using meteorological science to enhance economic prediction and measurement.

http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cie/cie.html

The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/

The New Geography on NPR Talk of the Nation

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1116371

Political Geography

Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~dpurcell/pgsg1.html

Political Geography on the Internet

http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/geography.html

Transportation

Transportation Geography links composed by UNI

http://www.uni.edu/transport/links.html

Intelligent Transportation Systems-Utilizing a broad range of diversity technologies to meet transportation problems.

http://www.itsa.org

U.S. Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems

http://www.its.dot.gov

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

ArcExplorer-free GIS software tool
http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/index.html

Natural Resources GIS (NRGIS) at DNR- free GIS data
http://samuel.igsb.uiowa.edu/nrgis/gishome.htm

Cyber Geography Research-Exploring the geographies of the Internet, the Web, and other emerging Cyberspaces

http://www.cybergeography.com

http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/geographic.html

ESRI - the creator of ArcView, a popular Geographic Information System (GIS) software package

http://www.esri.com/

Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office

http://www.sco.wisc.edu/

The Geographer’s Craft

http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/intro/intro_f.html

Internet Guide to Geographic Information Systems

http://www.gis.com/

NCGIA- Nation Center for Geographic Information & Analysis

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/

NCGIA Core Curriculum

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/core.html

Dane County On-Line GIS Resource List

http://www.danenet.wicip.org/gisedu/homepage/maps/resource.htm

Atlas Maps

http://www.nationalatlas.gov/atlasvue.html

Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/lieland/m0-0.html

Geography Network: GeoCommunicator

http://www.geocommunicator.gov/

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (Maps)

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/

Article in PC Magazine: “Mobile GPS Devices: Track Their Progress”

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,96210,00.asp

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe

http://www.euratlas.com

Color Landform Atlas of the United States

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html

Exploration

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia

http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/

Regional Geography, Atlases

Carto Corner- National Atlas of Canada

http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html

The Digital South Asia Library

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

Africa: Congo Daily News

http://www.congodaily.com/

Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland and associated archives 1550-1740

http://www.chartingthenation.lib.ed.ac.uk/index.html

Map Library of the National Library of Scotland

http://www.nls.uk/collections/maps/index.html

Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe

http://www.euratlas.com

China Dimensions Data Collection

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/

Alabama Maps

http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/index.html

Mapping Asia

http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/index.php

UK Maps and Aerial Photos

http://www.multimap.com

UK- The Engineering Map of the British Isles

http://www.engineering-timelines.com/locate/locate.folder.html

US- Washington state: Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html

Waterloo, Iowa: Waterloo Courier- “New Figures indicate area population loss”

http://www.wcfcourier.com/metro2001/020430figures.html

Taiwan: Declining Birth Rate Worries MOI

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2002/10/15/000175736

Physical Geography

USGS (United States Geologic Survey)

http://ww.usgs.org

The Climate Ark- daily news on a range of environmentally-related topics

http://www.climateark.org/

US Global Change Research Information Office

http://www.gcrio.org/index.shtml

Nation Science Foundation Global Change Research Programs

http://www.nsf.gov/geo/egch/

GRACE: The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/

BBC News: New Gravity Map Released

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1668872.stm

New Wind Chill Temperature Formula

http://ggweather.com/windchill.htm