Maps

Mississippi River

Monday Map: Water Infrastructure in New Orleans

The Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans has launched its first public dashboards to track its operations and initiatives.

May 20, 2019 - Sewage and Water Board of New Orleans

Imageability

Analyzing Lynch's City Imageability in the Digital Age

Mahbubur Meenar of Rowan University writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research

May 17, 2019 - JPER

Landscape near the Craters of the Moon in South Central Idaho

The Noisiest Places Are Found Far From the City

Humans can't always hear the sound, but there is plenty of noise in what we think of quiet corners of the United States.

May 14, 2019 - FiveThirtyEight

Metrorail

New Tool Puts Miami Development Opportunities on the Map

There's plenty of vacant or underutilized land to be found in Miami-Dade County, if you know where and how to look.

April 18, 2019 - Miami Herald

Country Grid

Facebook AI Maps Population Density

Facebook expects to release its worldwide maps of human density in the coming months—potential applications will likely be somewhere on the spectrum between humanitarian and commercial.

April 11, 2019 - The Verge

Density

Pop Quiz: Can You Identify Cities By Density Alone?

A Planetizen editor failed this quiz.

March 22, 2019 - The Guardian

Tokyo Subway Map

Friday Eye Candy: The World's Subway Systems, If You Could See Them From Above

Have you ever flown over a city and imagined all the subway lines running beneath the surface?

March 8, 2019 - Quid Corner

Chicago Bungalows

Mapped: Chicago's Shrinking Middle Class

In 1970, half of the city's census tracts were middle-income. Now, only 16 percent of them remain so. Polarization between the well-off and the poor essentially splits the city in two.

March 3, 2019 - WBEZ 91.5

Streetcar Graveyard

Mapping 'Lost' Transit Systems

Maps of planned, never built, and defunct transit systems in cities from Cleveland to Atlanta and Phoenix back to Cincinnati are for sale.

February 9, 2019 - CityBeat

Imaginary Maps

Friday Funny: Imagining Taco Bell-Oriented Rail Transit

A Reddit user created a transit map of the San Francisco Bay Area that connects Taco Bell locations, which, unlike rail public transit, have reached every corner of the region.

January 4, 2019 - Reddit

Maps, Not Facts

Just the maps, ma'am.

December 30, 2018 - CityLab

Smog

App Provides Real-Time Air Quality Data for Paris

Paris has made some incredibly ambitious and highly controversial policy changes to improve the city's air quality. In the meantime, there's a new app from Valeo to determine the state of the air quality in the city.

December 28, 2018 - CleanTechnica

Washington

Mapping the Pacific Northwest's Changing Population

The Oregonian has published a new interactive mapping feature that allows users to map demographic changes to the Census tract level through Oregon and Washington.

December 7, 2018 - The Oregonian

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Mapped: Racial Demographics, Down to the Census Block

An interactive map created by National Geographic creates a detailed look at the racial makeup of the United States.

October 24, 2018 - National Geographic

Minneapolis Riverfront

Mapping the Ambitious Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan

A parcel-by-parcel map of zoning changes included in the Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan.

October 15, 2018 - Star Tribune

Little Rock 1871

Mapped: Every Building in the United States

Using data from Microsoft, the New York Times has published an online map showing the placement of every building in the country, in a simple black and white format.

October 12, 2018 - The New York Times

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

District By District, Maps Trace Neighborhood Opportunity Across the U.S.

Down to the level of individual census tracts, a team of researchers has developed national maps showing where upward mobility is probable, and where it isn't.

October 10, 2018 - The New York Times

Washington D.C. Row Houses

Mapping D.C.'s Affordable Housing Investment

The District has created thousands of affordable homes, but analysts see a need for more targeted intervention.

September 25, 2018 - D.C. Financial Policy Institute

Airport

Friday Eye Candy: Mapping Distance and Social Connectedness

The New York Times published an interactive map that shows how important distance is in determining connections on social media.

September 21, 2018 - The New York Times

Beach

Friday Funny: Cartographers Are Hiding an Idyllic Continent

The rest of the world would only spoil it for the mapmakers.

September 14, 2018 - The Onion

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