From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.
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A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
Analysis of mortality data spanning 450 regions in Europe is categorical: longevity across the continent is a two-tier affair.
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?
To most accurately measure mountain peaks, Eric Gilbertson lugs equipment all the way to the top.
Informal governance is both a survival mechanism and a structure of power.
Combining psychology and geography has huge potential for improving mental health services.
As many as 10% of enslaved people on St. Croix escaped. Where they went has remained a mystery, but scientists are using new mapping technology to find answers.
A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.
In France, research shows that geographic clusters of industries that share similar knowledge bases and technologies have boosted employment in and across regions.
Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle.
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
Blue dot signs are going up across Omaha to show support for Kamala Harris. Heavily Republican Nebraska splits its electoral votes, and Omaha cast its single vote for Dems in 2008 and 2020.
With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories.
Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala Harris win the White House in November?
Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they settled.
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Associate Professor, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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