Dot and Point Maps

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

Dot Maps use dots (or points) to demonstrate the existence of a subject or a feature. It’s a lot like Bubble Maps (Proportional Symbol Maps), but the dots’ sizes don’t depend on their values, as there’s no size setting.  These maps are very useful and popular in the census, tourism, health service, and any other researches.

Note that when you use this type to draw density maps they must be drawn on an equal-area map projection. This is critical – using a map projection that does not preserve the size of areas will distort the perceived density of the dots.

There are two general types of Marker Maps: One-To-One and One-To-Many. One-To-One is a type where a marker stands for an only feature, event, or any other subject. One-To-Many means that one marker describes several subjects or values. There is no difference in setting the data, this is just general information that doesn’t affect the way of managing the data.

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Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (April 16-31)

Posted on May 2, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

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Rendering of Carpenter Park, Dallas / Hargreaves Jones Landscape Architecture

Landscape Planner: Post-pandemic World Could Be “a Little bit Slower and a Whole Lot Greener” — The Houston Chronicle, 04/30/20
“Kinder Baumgardner is especially attuned to space, how people use it and what public places can do to unite even in isolation. He is managing principal for the Houston office of SWA, an international design firm.”

First Look: The Redesign of Downtown Dallas’ Carpenter Park — D Magazine, 02/29/20
“Hargreaves Jones, the New York-based award-winning landscape architecture firm involved in developing the 2004 Dallas Parks Master Plan and downtown’s Belo Garden, is behind Carpenter Park’s redesign.”

Lithuanian Capital to Be Turned into Vast Open-air Cafe — The Guardian, 04/28/20
“Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, has announced plans to turn the city into a vast open-air cafe by giving over much of its public space to hard-hit bar and restaurant…

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Coronavirus pandemic, worldwide

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

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This 30 April 2020 video says about itself:

Pakistan: Doctors on hunger strike for PPE beaten and tortured by police

Health workers in Pakistan are on hunger strike and occupying hospitals to try and get proper PPE – the only masks and gowns they have at the moment are made of paper. In Lahore, they have only THREE respirators – and with an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases, they are struggling with huge courage get the resources they need to save lives.

Aid group warns of 3.2 million COVID-19 deaths, 1 billion infections in war-torn countries. By Bill Van Auken, 30 April 2020. The threat of massive fatalities is the legacy of decades of US imperialist wars that have ravaged entire societies, from Afghanistan, to Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen.

Family members protest amid six more deaths at Australian aged care home. By Mike Head

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Demographic Transition and Urbanization

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Rashid Faridi

If one turns to urbanization, again there are major problems with how it is usually approached by social scientists. once more, no one can doubt the great importance of the subject. For example, almost every country in the world is currently urbanizing, and many countries are experiencing unprecedented rapid rates of urban growth.There is a vital questions “Why Cities Grow so fast?”.  However, these facts are usually taken as the starting point for analysis. In as much as research addresses anything further back in the causal chain, it tends to give the most attention to the role of  rural-to-urban migration in bringing about urbanization. indeed, migration probably receives undue weight in this respect. as others have observed, the causes of urbanization have received relatively little attention ( Preston 1979; woods 2003a).

In addition, demographers and other social scientists often place too much weight on the interpretation of early experience in their attempts at explanation. this inclination can be especially strong if the early experience relates to their own culture and history. relatedly, there is a tendency to frame explanations in terms of features that eventually turn out to be relatively superficial. Such problems have affected research on both the demographic transition and urbanization. thus, the fact that in European societies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries industrialization and modern economic growth accompanied the demographic transition and urbanization has encouraged the idea that the former sorts of economic processes are the causes of the latter. However, such economic interpretations have faced difficulties in recent decades, because processes like fertility decline and urbanization have been occurring in settings where sustained economic growth and industrialization are largely absent.

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