Department of Geography

The issue of whether to raise minimum wage has business owners divided. Richard Morrill, professor emeritus of geography at the UW, is quoted. 

It’s one thing to read that the NAAPC grew from three branches in 1912 to 894 branches in 1945, but it’s more revealing to watch that expansion on an interactive map.

"China's decision to allow more families to have a second child is an effort to confront the problem of an aging population," writes Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at the UW.

Chinese officials are set to discuss ways to stimulate the country's sputtering housing market. Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at the UW, is quoted. 

China said it would normalize the status of millions of people who had lived on the margins of society. Kam Wing Chan, professor of geography at UW, is quoted. 

Wan Changru's 6-year-old daughter is legally unregistered because her parents broke China's one-child policy in having her. Kam Wing Chan, a geography professor, is quoted. 

The evolution of place's names in the Seattle area. Matt Sparke, professor of geography and international studies at the UW, is mentioned. 

The August primary election is two weeks away, and Seattle City Council races are kicking into high gear. Now candidates will run based on district thanks to a map drawn by a UW geographer.

The way people think about poverty affects both how important we think fighting poverty is. UW's Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood, geography professors, are quoted.

The juniors and seniors in Elwood’s GIS Workshop course are applying lessons learned in class to projects with local nonprofits ranging from food banks to criminal justice organizations.

Two University of Washington geography professors are leading an effort with what might be considered a staggeringly ambitious goal — to reframe how poverty is perceived and studied around the world.

The once ubiquitous term "middle class" has gone conspicuously missing from the 2016 campaign trail, as candidates and their strategists grasp for new terms for an unsettled economic era.

Kam Wing Chan, a professor of geography, comments on China's rural-urban migrants.

Elyse Gordon, a geography doctoral student at the UW, wants to inspire younger people to get involved in their communities.

Despite China's efforts to ease decades-old curbs on the movements of its rural population, the world's most populous country could see its ranks of internal migrants swell to dangerous levels over the next decade, a new research report says.