Sustainability

October 15, 2014 The Digital Image of the City

Digital& Computational Studies Initiative Bowdoin College

Jack Gieseking

Outline

1. Some last thoughts on race, ethnicity, and immigration

2. What is sustainability? •We consider the lobster

3. Augemented realities vs. digital dualism •We consider the WTC •We consider critical GIS •We do our own critical GIS analyses

What is sustainability?

Why Senate Control Matters - NYTimes 9/23/14

Pentagon unveils plan for military's response to climate change - LATimes 10/13/14

We consider the lobster

redbubble.com

Augmented realities v. digital dualism

We consider the WTC

Wikipedia

wtc-trauer.de

Google images

WTC

WTC 2014

We consider critical GIS

GoogleMaps

GoogleMaps

OSM

OSM

OSM

OSM

Graham & Zook

Graham & Zook

Graham & Zook

Graham & Zook

We conduct our own critical GIS analyses

Exploration: Online Maps of Portland

1. In your research groups, have one person each head to Bing, Google, OpenStreetMaps, Yahoo, and MapQuest.

2. Go to “Portland, Maine” and choose the map 3. Does this represent your experience? 4. How do the maps compare

Exploration: Social Explorer

1. On the Bowdoin library site, choose Databases > Social Explorer.

2. Choose Maps & Tables & then Start Here under Explore U.S. Demography.

3. Enter in “Portland, Maine.” 4. Use Change Data in top-left hand corner to

Browse Category & Year to see Portland change over time. (Feel free to do your hometown too.)

Assignment: zip

Reading for Monday, Oct. 20th: Young & Zukin

NOTE: MEET IN THE MUSEUM ENTRY BY THE FRONT DESK

Barnes - Paniagua = 1pm - 1:45pm Rafkin - Yang = 1:45pm - 2:30pm

UPCOMING DIOTC 10/20