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Springsteen in the USA: 40 Years of Touring as a Study in Spatial Diffusion

  There’s no more persuasive evidence that we’re in the twilight of the “Rock Star” than its appropriation by the tech sector to mean little more than someone with a penchant for wearing black and an inflated self-regard. But there are still a few true rock stars still plying their craft, including Bruce Springsteen who, […]

Redistricting Denver: Where “Communities of Interest” Allow Polite Folk to Sidestep Race, Class

Tonight in Denver, the City Council will take final public comments on its plan for redistricting.  Comments will be limited to 3 minutes. As someone who has been closely involved in the process and drafted one of the plans dropped from consideration earlier this month, I have more than three minutes of opinions to share… […]

The View From Your Window: the Best Geographic Reasoning on the Web

“Sometimes I think the education we dispense is better suited to a fifty-year old who feels he missed the point the first time around. Too many abstract ideas. Eternal verities left and right. You’d be better served looking at your shoe and naming the parts.” –Father Paulus confesses to Nick Shay in Don DeLillo’s Underworld, […]