Education in Geography

It's About Places

That's the theme of this web site — and that's the theme of our practice. When you need to tell a story about a place, and you need that story to be compelling and original, you will find your best stories with us.

To tell stories about your place, it helps to have the insights of a professional geographer. Jim earned my Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Geography so he could focus my talents on place-based problems and opportunities. he is most interested in what makes places unique, what makes them work, and how this information can help you towards success.

Here are the details about Jim's degrees in Geography:

• Master of Science in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, 1982. Graduate studies emphasized urban structure, with coursework in demographics and migration, urban social geography, quantitative methods, and landscape analysis. Graduate papers were on the quantitative analysis of urban structural change from a land economic standpoint; and on the use of controlled experiments in urban government programs that are distributed over space.
• Bachelor of Science in Geography, Mathematics Minor, Western Carolina University, summa cum laude, 1975. Studies concentrated on spatial analysis, and included urban planning and planning law, urban geography, quantitative methods, mathematical statistics and calculus, cartography, environmental geology, hydrology, and geomorphology.