Category: maps
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THINK.urban: Introducing Megapolitanism
A recent article from John King at the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned the concept of using the Megalopolitan scale for planning purposes. The article references the new book by Arthur C. Nelson and Robert E. Lang entitled ‘Megapolitan America: A New Vision for Understanding America’s Metropolitan Geography‘ (APA, 2011). As an example, King mentions the…
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Data Appeal – Making Map-Landscapes
A follow-up on new mapping tools from the author of ‘The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles’ (read a review of this great book here). Nadia Amoroso alerted me to a new endeavor called Data Appeal, which provides tools for visualization of data through mapping in order to engage people in new ways. London –…
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Europe Journal: Home Base
An interesting aspect of the European journey was the ability not to stay in hostels or hotels, but to live in some of the places that people actually inhabit in these cities. This was done courtesy of crashing on my sisters couch in London, and utilizing the fabulous air.bnb for finding amazing flats to stay…
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The Deconstructed City
Amazing new maps from an L+U favorite, Strange Maps, featuring ‘A Taxonomy of City Maps: “Imagined cities built from the fragments of real ones: something similar is happening in Tout bien rangé, a cartography-based artwork by French artist Armelle Caron. It consists of a series of map pairs, one a blind, but recognisably real city…
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More Hidden Rivers
Always a fan of explorations of lost rivers, this one is takes the existing urban pattern and erases the former route of the Fleet River in London (via the Londonist) “As most readers will know (and we’ve seen first hand), the river is now entirely underground and used as a sewer, but you can still…
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Zappata Romana
The ease of online mapmaking leads to a democratization of the dissemination of all forms of information. In the spirit of Greenmaps, Italian firm Urban Architecture Project presents Zappata Romana, a simple, icon-based mapping of community-run green spaces on underused and abandoned areas in Rome. Visualizza “ZAPPATA ROMANA”: community-run green areas _by studioUAP in una…
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City Concealed: Staten Island
I previously featured a video from the online video series “The City Concealed” produced by Thirteen, a project of New York station WNET. The series offers glimpses into some of the terrain vague of the metropolis by: “…exploring the unseen corners of New York. Visit the places you don’t know exist, locations you can’t get…
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The Digital Canopy (Expanded)
It’s intriguing that Google Earth 6 has started populating the virtual ‘planet’ with 3-Dimensional trees, which together with buildings and terrain offer the opportunity for some reasonable representation of exterior sites. Right now, only a few cities have been added in selected cities and natural areas: “I think we can all agree that our planet…
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Aquifers not Aquitards
From the recent post on watershed boundaries, a reader mentioned the concept of underground aquifers and their relation to geographical boundaries and . My title is in jest (sort of) referring to ‘Aquitards’ which according to Wikipedia is “a zone within the earth that restricts the flow of groundwater from one aquifer to another“, but…