GeoHistory

How Ancient Metals Started Civilization

What was the first metal humans used? What did the first metals have in common? What metal promoted the first intercontinental trade? How did this lead…

Dec 5 •

Why Is Argentina Poor?

The root of its economic mismanagement

Nov 1

Argentina’s Original Sin

How Geography and Institutions Conspired to Make Argentina Poorer

Oct 23 •

Water Taxis Might Change Urbanism

Through Hydrofoils

Oct 22 •

Argentina Could Be a Superpower

Its geography could have made it the United States of Latin America

Oct 16 •

The Consequences of the Silver Flood

Industrialization, empires that rose and fell, families that took over the world, and more

Oct 10 •

How Silver Flooded the World

And how that Replaced Feudalism and the Church with Capitalism and Nation-States

Oct 7 •

Final Comments on the Theory of Mountains & Warm Countries

Third and last article on why warm countries are poorer.

Oct 3 •

Warm Countries’ Poverty & Mountains: Responses to Your Comments

Geographic arguments against the theory: Switzerland, Austria, Colorado, India, Cambodia, Indonesia, China…Has race had any role in warm countries…

Oct 1 •

Why Warm Countries Are Poorer

The most underrated factor

Sep 25 •

How to Design a Great City

All the principles we’ve seen in the previous two articles shape how to make a city great.

Sep 24 •

How Do Villages Grow into Cities?

Article 2 of A Science of Cities

Sep 19 •

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