Announcements

Annabelle Law, Geography senior, was awarded $400 in department funds to participate in the weeklong 2024 AAG conference. Below, she shares her experience and insights from the event.

Attending the American Association of Geographers (AAG) conference in Hawai’i this year was an experience that intertwined learning, reflection, and immersion in a complex socio-geographical context. The choice of Hawai’i as the conference venue, though controversial due to the island’s challenges with tourism and militarism, provided a unique backdrop for exploring themes of indigenous knowledge,...

"Literature on black environmental geographies uplifts black land and water relations, marronage, placemaking practices, and the envisioning of black futurity in the face of environmental and climate precarity. This demonstrates the ways these communities are not only geographic actors, but also ecological actors and caretakers."

Black environmental geographies scholarship has made significant strides in expanding the ways we understand ecologies and ecological relationships interweaving the lives of black communities across the black diaspora. In this article,...

Congratulations to Associate Professor Desiree Fields on her new paper, co-authored with two students in the Department of City and Regional Planning, titled "Platform Firms, Commercial Real Estate Cycles and San Francisco’s Growth as a Tech Cluster, 2008–2020". This article uses the lens of the commercial real estate market to examine the urbanization of digital technology companies in San Francisco in the years between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. During this period, the rise of digital...

“We’re reconstructing history here.”

A new piece by the Berkeley News profiles William Carter, Geography Ph.D. candidate, on...