Taylor Shelton
@jtsphd.bsky.social
professing geography @ georgia state, making maps @ mappingatlanta.org, editing @ atlantastudies.org, kentuckian in ATL, etc. etc.
This line from the NYT piece about college radio is deeply ironic to me in particular, as one of my recurring nightmares involves being mortified at forgetting how the radio equipment works and leaving extensive amounts of dead air time
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
This line from the NYT piece about college radio is deeply ironic to me in particular, as one of my recurring nightmares involves being mortified at forgetting how the radio equipment works and leaving extensive amounts of dead air time
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yo @atlantaciviccircle.org, this is pretty gross, especially on a story about such an important topic. Can we just not?
very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world
June 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
very upsetting when your wife, who studies environmental conservation, refuses to study prairie dog habitat conservation even though this organization has the cutest logo in the entire world
If you're a candidate for local elected office - especially in Atlanta - wearing these boots is a major 🚩🚩🚩
April 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
If you're a candidate for local elected office - especially in Atlanta - wearing these boots is a major 🚩🚩🚩
Whatever the potentially valid reason may be, the symbolism here is... something.
April 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Whatever the potentially valid reason may be, the symbolism here is... something.
New research out from friends at @pestakeholder.bsky.social shows that private equity firms own 10% of all apartment units across the United States, and upwards of 20% of all apartments here in Georgia, the highest share of any state
pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New research out from friends at @pestakeholder.bsky.social shows that private equity firms own 10% of all apartment units across the United States, and upwards of 20% of all apartments here in Georgia, the highest share of any state
pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
pestakeholder.org/reports/priv...
Not sure if I've got any friends in Pittsburgh who don't already know about this, but I'll be giving a talk at Pitt this Friday, 4/11 at 10:30am on my research into the geographies of absentee housing ownership in Atlanta. Come thru if you can!
April 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Not sure if I've got any friends in Pittsburgh who don't already know about this, but I'll be giving a talk at Pitt this Friday, 4/11 at 10:30am on my research into the geographies of absentee housing ownership in Atlanta. Come thru if you can!
This tidbit about the connections between different segments of the housing market through their shared private equity owners is a pretty apt example of the kind of stuff we're actually up against, and what having an appropriate lens helps one to see and understand
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This tidbit about the connections between different segments of the housing market through their shared private equity owners is a pretty apt example of the kind of stuff we're actually up against, and what having an appropriate lens helps one to see and understand
Couldn't have said it better than @brian-goldstone.bsky.social in this new interview...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Some of my dearest friends & family live in California, but if your analysis of housing starts and stops there, I'm really not interested in anything you have to say
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Some of my dearest friends & family live in California, but if your analysis of housing starts and stops there, I'm really not interested in anything you have to say
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Couldn't have said it better than @brian-goldstone.bsky.social in this new interview...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Some of my dearest friends & family live in California, but if your analysis of housing starts and stops there, I'm really not interested in anything you have to say
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Some of my dearest friends & family live in California, but if your analysis of housing starts and stops there, I'm really not interested in anything you have to say
We're only "halfway through Day 1" and I'm already up to eight emails and one text message.
April 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We're only "halfway through Day 1" and I'm already up to eight emails and one text message.
Like with everything in the world, there's a geography to Girl Scout Cookies...
February 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Like with everything in the world, there's a geography to Girl Scout Cookies...
So the dipshit libertarian economists are still out here calculating rates of institutional ownership based on inconsistent denominators and claiming it's definitive proof that corporate landlords aren't a problem 🙄
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
February 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So the dipshit libertarian economists are still out here calculating rates of institutional ownership based on inconsistent denominators and claiming it's definitive proof that corporate landlords aren't a problem 🙄
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Happy holidays from everyone’s two favorite Kentucky-born geographers! 🎄🎅
December 24, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Happy holidays from everyone’s two favorite Kentucky-born geographers! 🎄🎅
this is one reality TV show I haven't watched, but I can always appreciate some more GSU reality TV excellence
December 6, 2024 at 12:07 AM
this is one reality TV show I haven't watched, but I can always appreciate some more GSU reality TV excellence
Last one until next year. See you soon, old friend.
June 13, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Last one until next year. See you soon, old friend.
One of a couple ironic things about this signage on GSU's campus is that the only thing preventing people from enjoying the campus greenway has been the as-yet-unfinished construction on a full half of it (pictured in background) that has been ongoing since the Fall semester 🙄
April 29, 2024 at 4:54 PM
One of a couple ironic things about this signage on GSU's campus is that the only thing preventing people from enjoying the campus greenway has been the as-yet-unfinished construction on a full half of it (pictured in background) that has been ongoing since the Fall semester 🙄
And with three of the most anti-climactic, emotionally detached sentences ever written... YA BOY'S GOT TENURE! 🥳🎉 (Not that it means a whole lot in the state of Georgia anymore)
April 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
And with three of the most anti-climactic, emotionally detached sentences ever written... YA BOY'S GOT TENURE! 🥳🎉 (Not that it means a whole lot in the state of Georgia anymore)
March 4, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Gonna guess that there's a pretty good chance this is the first time books by David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre and Cedric Robinson have appeared in the background of an Atlanta local TV news interview
The whole thing is here, in case you're interested: www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3...
The whole thing is here, in case you're interested: www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3...
March 2, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Gonna guess that there's a pretty good chance this is the first time books by David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre and Cedric Robinson have appeared in the background of an Atlanta local TV news interview
The whole thing is here, in case you're interested: www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3...
The whole thing is here, in case you're interested: www.wsbtv.com/news/local/3...
Given that ShotSpotter may be the only policing technology that Atlanta *doesn't* employ, let's take a quick look at how Louisville shapes up when comparing their distribution to the city's racial geographies... 🧐🤔😑
via www.wired.com/story/shotsp...
via www.wired.com/story/shotsp...
February 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Given that ShotSpotter may be the only policing technology that Atlanta *doesn't* employ, let's take a quick look at how Louisville shapes up when comparing their distribution to the city's racial geographies... 🧐🤔😑
via www.wired.com/story/shotsp...
via www.wired.com/story/shotsp...
What's going on with the Kansas-Oklahoma border that the value of a half-court shot fluctuates by 1000%?
February 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
What's going on with the Kansas-Oklahoma border that the value of a half-court shot fluctuates by 1000%?