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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:45:01 -0800 (PST)
From: rosemarie mckeon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Mike Davis "controversy" <fwd>
 
 
have you checked with aerial fotobank?
contact:
oscar weser
6181 cornerstone court east
suite e
san diego, cal 92121
phone (619) 4550780
 
 
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Rosemarie McKeon
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External Relations
University of California, San Diego
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
San Diego Supercomputer Center, MC 0505
9500 Gilman Drive, Bldg 109
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Johnnie Sutherland wrote:
 
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> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:39:00 -0500
> From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Mike Davis "controversy"
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> Can someone on maps-l help her? Alice Hudson, Map Division, NYPL
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> >Subject: Re: Mike Davis "controversy"
> >Author:  "Martha J. Bianco; List Editor" <[log in to unmask]> at
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> >Date:    12/14/98 9:42 AM
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> >Posted by Marshall Feldman <[log in to unmask]>
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> In response to Philip Ethington's comments below, I routinely have my
> students estimate land uses with point-sampling techniques and maps. If
> someone will supply or direct me to accurate maps and/or photos of the
> L.A. city and region, I will assign this to my class next spring, along
> with readings on the Davis controversy and the politics of scholarship and
> methods. The maps or photos must have sufficient resolution to discern
> roads and other concrete uses from non-concrete. In return, I will supply
> the list with a methodologically documented estimate of the percent of
> concrete land use both in LA and the greater region.
>
> BTW: Is the greater region the area covered by SCAG? This may be too big
> even for an entire class. Perhaps others on the list would be willing to
> cooperate in a multi-university joint venture.
>
> P.S.  For those of you who've been reading too many French theorists,
> "concrete" here is not the same as the difference between "concrete" and
> "abstract."  :)
>
> Marshall Feldman
> The University of Rhode Island
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