Our world is flooded with conflicting special interests pushing contradictory ideas and perspectives fueled by social media. So, you can’t blame folks for getting confused when trying to understand...
Whether Californians have learned to love or hate them, embrace, or reject them, cars have dominated California lives and livelihoods for more than a century. They’ve shaped our state’s...
We live in exciting times, times when geospatial technologies are helping us to ponder, explore, understand, and even solve complicated, multi-faceted problems. At colleges across the Golden State, like...
Stereotyping often allows us to confirm our preconceived, superficial notions about people and places. It requires little work or investigation and is even encouraged within our misinformed social media...
A few decades ago, demographic data began to reveal how California was becoming the most culturally diverse state and Los Angeles the most culturally diverse metropolitan area in the...
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,...
In this publication and on this web site, we have examined how storage and distribution centers fueled by e-commerce technologies have been transforming landscapes out in the exurbs. These...
This project and this web site have necessarily highlighted the profound impacts of an accelerating technological revolution on the Golden State’s people and landscapes. From geospatial technologies to e-commerce...
Ride across California on the back of the wind and learn about the dramatic impact that seasonal weather and climate change have on the Golden State.
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