Author Archives: Julia Adams

Link of the Week: Bloomberg MapLab

https://www.bloomberg.com/citylab/maplab For the Blog of the Week, I decided to highlight Bloomberg CityLab’s site. According to the website, the Bloomberg CityLab “focuses on the problems that cities face, focusing on Transportation, Environment, Justice, Culture, Design, and Housing.” Through their MapLab … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week: Prison Map

http://prisonmap.com/  http://prisonmap.com/about Prison Map, by Josh Begley, a student at NYU studying Interactive Telecommunications, created a collection of satellite images of prisons throughout the United States. Through his collection of photographs, Begley aims to answer the question, “what does the … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Baltimore City Crime Map

https://arcgisportal.baltimorepolice.org/publiccrimemap/ Baltimore City was ranked number four for “the most dangerous cities in America” by CBS News in 2019, based on FBI data from the Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Growing up in Baltimore myself, I was privileged to not have … Continue reading

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