Maps
Mapping Potential 'Opportunity Zones'
The GOP tax reform bill enabled a potentially powerful new funding mechanism for struggling communities.
Mapping the Collision Course of Sprawl and Biodiversity
The expansion of the built environment proceeds with little regard for the loss of biodiversity, and the planning field isn't doing enough to help.
Mapping the Fastest Growing Companies in the United States
Here's a helpful tool for understanding economic growth.
Mapping the LGBTQ-Friendliness of the World's Cities
A colorful data visualization tool maps information about which cities have the most protections for LGBTQ people in place. The tool is intended as a resource for LGBTQ travelers.
'Renewing Inequality': Mapping the Scars of Urban Renewal
A new interactive maps brings a visual reality to the scale of displacement effected by urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s.
Friday Eye Candy: Charting Road Maps By Hand
In the days before Google Maps, when AAA TripTiks and Thomas Guides ruled the planet…
Mapping All the Transit Corridors Targeted for Upzoning Under California's SB 827
SB 827, announced last week by California State Senator Scott Wiener, would revoke density maximums, parking minimums, and set permissive height limits along transit corridors all over the state.
Mapzen to Close at the End of January
The mapping community was sad to learn this week that the Mapzen open source mapping platform would cease operation at the end of the month. Many of Mapzen's open source tools will live on, for those that now how to use them.
A New Way to Explore Local Transit Ridership Data
TransitCenter has released a new National Ridership Map.
Mapping the Country's Debt
An interactive map from the Urban Institute invites comparisons in the geography of debt.
What One Oil Pipeline Spill Every Day Looks Like on a Map
The recent spill of 210,000 gallons of crude oil from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota was far from an outlier.
Friday Eye Candy: Highly Detailed Cold War Era Soviet Maps of the U.S.
A new book sheds light on maps created by cartographers in the Soviet Union that dove into remarkable detail about buildings, transportation networks, and other infrastructure in cities across the United States and around the world.
Like Waze, But for Bikes
The mobile app LaneSpotter, described as a navigation app like Waze but for cyclists, has announced eight cities as the location for a pilot launch.
'Housing Insights' Mapping Tool Designed to Preserve Subsidized Housing in D.C.
The Housing Insights team of volunteer civic hackers hopes you'll use their software in other cities, too.
Take an Online Tour of Historic Prince George's County, Maryland
You don't have to be a fan of Prince George's County to be a fan of the historical maps and geographic insight on the online Prince George's Atlas.
Redesign D.C.'s Metro With an Interactive Mapping Tool
Metro Map Maker allows users to add, alter, and erase pieces of the WMATA system—or redraw it from scratch.
Mapping the Paths of Hurricanes Recorded Since 1851
All yesterday's hurricanes.
Watch Transit Move With These Animated Maps
The variables in public transit service have never been so brightly and kinetically illustrated.
Seattle's Weirdest Intersections Make a Fetching Design
One artist capitalized on the quirks of Seattle's street grid.
Friday Eye Candy: Mapping the Nation's Internet Trolls
Finally, we know where Internet trolls come from—no, not the basements of parents' houses.
FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?
After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.
Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold
The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.
City of Rosemead
Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
One Hundred Miles
The Architects Foundation
University of Cincinnati Online
Montrose County
The Pocatello Development Authority
The Urban Renewal Agency of the City of Pocatello
