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Whimsical Maps of Dutch Population
The maps are the work of world-renowned Dutch architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas Found via Strange Maps.
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Using maps to identify abandoned public spaces
Local Code : Real Estates uses geospatial analysis to identify thousands of publicly owned abandoned sites in major US cities, imagining this distributed, vacant landscape as a new urban system....
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Fantastic Visualization of World Demography
I saw this link to a TED talk as I was looking for population projections for China and the US. It is from a professor and co-creator of GAP minder (recently bought by Google I think). Not too many...
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Diabetes on the March
Interactive map from Slate. Source of the data is Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. I have used it is past research.
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Night fly over of worlds cities.
Very cool video of International Space Station (ISS) view of earth and night. I saw this at CASA while looking for R maps....
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Transportaton Space
This is a pic, although a bit deceptive, about the space used for different modes of transportation. The cars and bikes are parked so if moving would take up more space. There is only one bus but again...
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Aftermath! What happened to Urban Housing prices after the housing bubble...
This post is about housing prices by urban areas using the Federal Housing Finance Administration (FHFA) data, starting from the bust in Q1 2009. This is a very mixed story when looking at the data by...
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East Coast Lights USA.
Just saw this picture on I love science. Nice overview of urban land-use in the eastern United States. The angle is a little different than what one normally sees with night time satellite images.
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Map of Election to date from NY TIMES
This has the results by county. As per usual with out the size of the county population it is a little are to read. Clinton did well in the south.
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Global Trend of Living with Parents
In the United States adult children living at home is an increasing trend as well as a source of consternation due to parental conflict and social stigma. Perhaps a bit more surprising is that this...
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