Category: maps
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Large Parks
In the spirit of one of the finest collections of writing on parks (and landscape urbanism) ‘Large Parks’ (edited by Czerniak & Hargreaves) a recent post on The Infrastructurist catalogs 10 of the world’s greatest large parks. “We thought it would be fun to take ten of the world’s largest, most famous, and most beautiful…
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3 Dutch Megacities Map
Another fantastic post from Strange Maps, this time featuring the excerpt from Rem Koolhaas’ fabulous door-stop like book ‘S/M/L/XL’. In this case, “…a rumination on “Manhattanism” – i.e. the tendency of city centre densities to be taken to new heights, sometimes literally, in the form of an urban grid filled with skyscrapers. These three maps…
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New York Day/Night
Another interesting map, this time showing the difference in population from daytime to nightime – showing the major exodus that happens when the workday is finished. Via People and Place > The Pop-Up City > The Urbanophile “…an interesting graphic that gives insight in the huge differences between New York’s day and night population density…
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Detroit Vacancy
Another interesting visual on Detroit – this time from the The Detroit News – on the preponderance of vacancies in the CBD: “While there is no official ledger of empty buildings, The Detroit News identified 48 major structures with no outward signs of life in the Central Business District, which covers about 127 blocks. Others…
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Suburban Fantasies
These visualizations of suburban patterns by Ross Racine offer “…fictive urban patterns, mostly suburbias, surrounded by a desert or agricultural looking environment.” (via Landezine) :: image via LandezineThis is definitely a compelling idea to both elucidate and satirize the ubiquitous suburban patterns, and offers some commentary about the drivers of these forms. I thought at…
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Radical Cartography
A very cool site that was reintroduced to me recently is Radical Cartography, one of the most interesting collections of maps out there (with the exception of maybe the wonderfully oddball collection over at Strange Maps). I had lost touch with the site, after this cool post on Agriculture maps of the US from back…