Observed arrival · 2026-10-22
Ground and Sound: Russell Weaver’s civic maps and books
A quantitative geographer’s home for books, policy writing, and public-data tools focused on Buffalo, Western New York, and the Rust Belt.
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- Rust Belt organizers and local officials
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- The High Road book groups its proposed playbook into prefigure, disrupt, and capture strategies, backed by maps and local indicators.
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The site organizes writing and research into books, articles, policy memos, explainers, reports, op-eds, media, and testimony. Its Commoning Consciousness description proposes a ten-minute GAIA routine—Gratitude, Affirmation, Intention, Action—and a weekly ledger that compares who bears costs and benefits with what actually happened.
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