by Gary Menger | Sep 9, 2021 | Maps
What is a place known for? Think Detroit and you likely think cars. Washington, D.C.? Government. Los Angeles, movies and television, nicely incorporated in a single term – Hollywood. Orlando? Disney World. Our comparison of Nashville and Memphis started with jazz,...
by Gary Menger | Sep 9, 2021 | City Series, Maps
Geography and music, two things that most people don’t associate with the other. Listening to a song on the radio does not, in most normal people, lead to a consideration of the peculiar geography of many of the music styles which emerged over the past century. And...
by Gary Menger | Aug 26, 2021 | Canada Data, Menger's Musings
In the world of demographics, seemingly small differences in national statistics can have dramatic effects, especially when those differences have different spatial expressions. The average age of the population in the United States is about 38.5 years old. In Canada,...
by Gary Menger | Aug 5, 2021 | Featured, Menger's Musings
I started my undergraduate degree in geography in the late 1970’s, but lest you think I roamed free with the dinosaurs, I admit to being slightly underage for a college freshman and most species were likely already extinct. It was an exciting time in geography as the...
by Gary Menger | Jul 8, 2021 | Census, Menger's Musings
Every representative democracy has a fundamental need to undertake a regular enumeration of its citizens to ensure that equal representation can be maintained as best as possible. But once you have gone to considerable trouble to count the people, it is quite...
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