Open-Source Geography » Isaiah Bowman http://opensourcegeography.org Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Ideas for Internet Infrastructure Analysis for Economic Geographers and Industrial Location Specialists http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/05/ideas-for-internet-infrastructure-analysis-for-economic-geographers-and-industrial-location-specialists/ http://opensourcegeography.org/2008/07/05/ideas-for-internet-infrastructure-analysis-for-economic-geographers-and-industrial-location-specialists/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:57:05 +0000 Kevin M http://www.30secondwords.com/?p=45 In Geography is Dead, Warwick E. Murray’s revisits the economic geography theory that Globalization is the end of Geography. Using Amazon as an example, he claimed brick-and-mortar book sales losses would collapse the bookstore industry. We know they adapted and survived and his thesis is deftly countered by Kevin Morgan’s “Exaggerated Death of Geography.”

As a PhD applicant actively seeking Graduate Funding, any one of these topics is a viable PhD dissertation topic. There are observable geographic patterns of Internet Activity that can be measured and statistically modelled within commonly understood models of Industrial Location.

  • Mutually Beneficial Economic Development as Optimization Variable in Industrial Location: A Google, Government and Energy Management Case Study
  • Patterns of Starbuck Store Closure: A Correlation with the Commercial and Residential Development Market.
  • Geographic Patterns of Crowdsourced Loans: A Prosper.com Case Study (for Academic purposes, Prosper offers a download of its entire dataset).
  • The Economics the Pioneer Fringe: An Empirical Revisit to Isaiah Bowman
  • Pre-Revolutionary Land Use Patterns and Concepts of Ownership
  • Open-Source Micro-Franchising: A Distributed Distribution Method for Incubating Crowdsourced Content
  • The Geography of Long Tail Economics-(Perhaps this one actually is killing the record store).
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