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Late night June 25, 2012 (Elvin Wyly)
G448 option
Reading
Urban Geography


Brainstorm.  Call me when I'm near my print collection of Urban Geography.  Everything that appears in the journal is available online, but my brain still seems to work best for these sorts of things when I'm talking to a human being and flipping through stuff on my desk, stacked on the floor, lined up on the shelf. 

So if you call me, and I can browse through recent issues while we're talking so I can get to know what you're interested in ...

then I can give you some suggestions based on things I've read recently.

Talk. eStay in touch.  Try to make my weekly meeting times, or make a phone call.  Please, avoid email -- it's hard to keep up with it all.  Email receives one part of my brain; face-to-face conversation seems to inspire another part of the brain; reading your writing gets another; and talking by telephone sends impulses through another set of synapses.

In general the part of my brain that is the most stressed out (and thus the most stupid, the least useful to you) is the EEB (elvin email brain).

Write.  Write a paper, as you keep in touch and we meet during the term.  Put your passion, knowledge, and expertise together with what you find in the various articles we agree that you might find interesting.  I will start out with Urban Geography articles, simply because that's what I'm reading lots of these days ... but very quickly our discussion might go in other directions as well, and once you start with my suggestions, you should definitely track down articles that I have not yet read ...

so much scholarship, so little time...!



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Every time I read a paper that goes into Urban Geography, I'm inspired by all sorts of ideas for student projects.  Here's the latest example:  an analysis of the city-regional politics of transit, amidst our current ongoing capitalist crisis, in the Toronto and Chicago regions.  What can we learn about the contrasts between U.S. and Canadian contexts as city-regions struggle with their fragmented identities in an increasingly uncertain, competitive world of transnational competition?

You might like this as a project if 1) you like cities, 2) you like cartography and/or design, 3) you have an interest in contrasts between U.S. and Canadian politics, and/or 4) you're interested in the social and political aspects of transportation.   

Playful question: if Rob Ford were hitchhiking in the desperate cold and snow in a Great Lakes January, and Rahm Emanuel was driving a bus ... would Rahm stop to pick him up?
   
Interested?  Take a peek as close as you can to page 34 -- see those maps at the bottom?  Draw a pair of maps -- one of the Chicago region, one of the Greater Toronto Area, then narrate it by updating the story and gathering quotes from various media sources to illustrate the story.  Give me a call if you'd like to brainstorm on this further.

[elvin:  look under e:/urbangeography/andy/ms2664 for the electronic file...]