1. How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - an interactive map

    How Manhattan’s Grid Grew - an interactive map

  2. Data Visualization: The Eight Largest Burger Chains in the U.S. | A Hamburger Today

    Via victoriamembrillo.
    Data Visualization: The Eight Largest Burger Chains in the U.S. | A Hamburger Today Via victoriamembrillo.

  3. Here’s a map of the United States if each state had the same population (about 5.5 million apiece). According to this, I’ve lived in the states of Green Bay, Erie, New York, and Willamette. Here’s why this map is an improvement over current state boundaries:

    • Ends overrepresentation of rural areas and underrepresention of cities in presidental voting.
    • Ends the imbalance of federal funding in favor of small states.
    • Preserves the historical structure of the electoral college and the United States unique federal system, balancing power between levels of government.
    • States could be redistricted after each census - just like house seats are distributed now.
    Via fakeisthenewreal.org.
    Here’s a map of the United States if each state had the same population (about 5.5 million apiece). According to this, I’ve lived in the states of Green Bay, Erie, New York, and Willamette. Here’s why this map is an improvement over current state boundaries: Ends overrepresentation of rural areas and underrepresention of cities in presidental voting. Ends the imbalance of federal funding in favor of small states. Preserves the historical structure of the electoral college and the United States unique federal system, balancing power between levels of government. States could be redistricted after each census - just like house seats are distributed now. Via fakeisthenewreal.org.

  4. The fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregated from their states (in orange). Each has been scaled and sorted according to population. The metro areas are US-Census defined CBSAs and MSAs.
    Via fake is the new real

    The fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregated from their states (in orange). Each has been scaled and sorted according to population. The metro areas are US-Census defined CBSAs and MSAs. Via fake is the new real

  5. The Geography of a Recession

    Time lapse video of U.S. unemployment rates by county.

  6. US Interstate System as Subway Map

    I believe you have to log in to Flickr to see the larger size (worth it).

  7. Theme Park Maps

    Urban cartography, sort of.

  8. In my Spatial Composition class, we read an excerpt from “Streets and City Patterns” by Allan Jacobs. The article compares the fabric of a city at the scale of one square mile. Some cities, like Venice, have narrow streets and many intersections. Newer cities, like Irvine, are spread out and deliberately avoid intersections. In general, it’s just fascinating to compare urban areas visually.

    For the slideshow above, I took screengrabs from Google Maps of cities I thought would be interesting to compare. To be fair, each picture has the Google-determined city center in it. Each picture is roughly 2500 square feet.