Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: grad school suggestions
Date: Mar 19, 2002 @ 17:06
Author: David Mark (David Mark <dmark@...>)
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, m donner wrote:
> david
> do i understand correctly
> first you offer us fellow uniquely empassioned geonuts a good place to
> pursue boundary pointing interests
> but then you limit us to what you personally think is very interesting
> & from that you whittle us down to what is also popular
> & finally from all that down to normal scientific pursuit
>
> & may i also ask you as my fellow charter member of bp whether you
> understand that this site is primarily & expressly devoted not to scientific
> pursuit but to the physical pursuit of multisovereign boundary points
> because these are the actual boundarypoint interests
> while ordinary boundary interests per se are necessarily secondary &
> derivative here
>
> & the only sciences here are those of joyriding & laser thinking
> or perhaps of punctology
> if we play doctor
>
> m
>
>
>
> >From: David Mark
> >
> >As you may recall, I don't think mixed-level multi-points are very
> >interesting. Personally, the various kinds of territory at sea leave me
> >completely cold. I wonder if 99 % of the public agree with me, or 1 %?
> >I find it mildly interesting to document the extent to which various
> >hierarchical jurisdictions such as town, county, province, state, nation
> >extend out into ocean water or out into lakes, etc.
> >
> >Anyway, one could come up with a formal typology of administrative
> >multipoints, that took account of how many regions/boundaries meet at the
> >multipoint, and what level in the geopolitical hierarchy the regions are.
> >We might define a homogeneous multipoint as a point at which three or more
> >regions of the same level meet, tri-state, tri-county, tri-nation points.
> >Inhomogeneous points would be mixed-- eg two states and another country.
> >
> >I am not sure what if any the scientific questions to be researched would
> >be.
> >
> >David
> >
> >On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, acroorca2002 wrote:
> >
> > > wonderful david
> > >
> > > can we study & inventory the federal multipoints of canada there with
> > > particular reference to the federal maritime territory
> > >
> > > i mean can we make a really scientific politico geographico mereo
> > > topology of all canadian territory
> > >
> > > i find most people
> > > even well educated canadians
> > > still think canada has only 4 primary multipoints & only 3 federal
> > > territories
> > >
> > > m
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., David Mark <dmark@g...> wrote:
> > > > Buffalo! With myself in Geography, plus political geographer Meghan
> > > Cope,
> > > > plus Barry Smith in Philosophy, and Munroe Eagles in political
> > > science,
> > > > Buffalo would be a good place to pursue BoundaryPoint interests at
> > > the
> > > > (post)graduate level.
> > > >
> > > > David
> > > > http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~dmark/
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, timothykiser wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > as a fellow geography nut, i'm hoping that some of you may be able
> > > to
> > > > > suggest potential geography grad school programs. like most
> > > everyone
> > > > > in this group, my geographical passions are unique. i welcome any
> > > > > insight or suggestions.
> > > > >
> > > > > my areas of interest are socio/cultural and political geography.
> > > > > those topics closest to my heart are enclaves/exclaves,
> > > micronations,
> > > > > and linguistic geography (anglo/french canada and quebec, basque,
> > > and
> > > > > rhaeto-romance. by the way, i'm currently living in chicago.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks!
> > > > >
> > > > > tim
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