Rent Pressure in L.A
Rent and Income Dynamics in Los Angeles: Spatiotemporal Trends, 2000–2022 By: Svetlana Babaeva We’re thrilled to once again showcase the impressive work of a GIS student from Santa Monica...
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Wells, Crops, and Crisis
Exploring the Spatial Relationships Between Groundwater Depletion, Crops and Landcover in Tulare County, CA. At Rediscovering the Golden State: California Geography, one of our missions is to feature the...
Now There Is No Denying Our World Is Getting Hotter
California presently holds the world record surface temperature of 56.7°C (134°F) measured in Death Valley way back in 1913. But as you will come to learn in this article,...
Evolving Diversity Redraws our Political Maps
California has a long-established political geography history that has surprised and puzzled pundits and alternately frustrated and delighted liberals and conservatives on all sides of the spectrum. More recently,...
COVID-free Spaces in Pandemic Places: Coping with COVID-19 across California
As the COVID-19 pandemic peaks again in the fall and drags on into winter, 2020, it is our duty to provide this update, our latest attempt to make a...
Bill Bowen Maps California’s Many Faces
In this story that has necessarily expanded with unfortunate current events, you are invited to compare the following maps that illustrate how education, ethnicity, and politics combine to mold...
COVID-19 Update: Divisions Resurface in the Golden State
During the past six weeks, California has arguably changed faster than at any time in history. We started with what seemed to be a concerted effort to eliminate the...
COVID-19 Attacks California
An ominous, somewhat Orwellian electronic road sign loomed over us: “Stay calm, Stay informed, Stay safe.” For the two decades since this project began, we’ve analyzed scores of earthquakes,...
Welcome to Tijuana: Caravans, Computers, Carnivals, and Controversy
We have often noted how California’s physical and human geography extends far beyond our state’s borders. This is particularly true when we examine our natural landscapes and the processes...
Extreme Gentrification?
In our publication, we have examined how California’s wild economic roller coaster can quickly create individual and geographic winners and losers. Likewise, the economic and geographic distances between the...
