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 Elyse Menger | Aug 12, 2021 | Maps
As the fall approaches, college towns all across America are flooded with undergraduate students eager to move into their dorm rooms. Along with them come parents helping them move in, and alumni headed to town for home football games. Reliving the good old days, or...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 22, 2021 | City Series, Maps
San Diego is often ranked as one of the most beautiful places in the United States to live. As the 17th largest metro area, San Diego has seen average growth in the last 20 years, but saw a large growth from 1970-2000. With a population over 3.3 million people, and an...
by Elyse Menger | Jul 22, 2021 | City Series, Maps
Buffalo, New York is a classic geographic study in locational advantage. After the British burned the city during the War of 1812, and with the opening of the Erie Canal in the 1820’s, the Lake Erie port town of Buffalo grew rapidly so that by 1860, Buffalo was ranked...
by Gary Menger | Jul 1, 2021 | Canada Data, Maps, Menger's Musings
Most people in the world tend to lump the United States and Canada together, much in the way they would Austria and Germany, or Australia and New Zealand. Of course, this seriously annoys the citizens of these countries, who know better. Often, it is the citizen of...
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