Category Archives: Maps of the Week

Map of the Week: The Intercontinental Railway

Visionaries, engineers, and leaders from all over the world have long been fascinated by the concept of connecting North America to Eurasia by rail. Currently in the planning stage, and now known as the Intercontinental Railway, this ambitious plan of … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: The Cost of Starting a Business in Countries Around the World

Map: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/cost-of-starting-a-business/ When comparing how much it would cost to start a business in different countries around the world you may be surprised how big the gap is between the cheapest and most expensive country. When calculating a country’s cost … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: New York City Subway System Post 9/11

Links to higher quality maps: https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?/img/maps/calcagno-2001-07-22.gif https://transitmap.net/post-911-subway/ In large metropolises like New York City, transportation infrastructure is crucial to the function of the city. Public transportation such as metro lines, bus routes, and taxis along with road infrastructure like interstate … Continue reading

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Cartographic Irony: When Protesting Oppression Oppresses

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Protest maps allow marginalized groups to harness the “mythical power” of maps to challenge the status quo. But even protest maps can use harmful stereotypes and gross distortions to make their arguments about social change.   This map is important because … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Starkey’s “How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama”

How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama When looking at a map, we often take for granted the things that the map presents to us. Of course, we can shove a map to our … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Automating Banishment

https://automatingbanishment.org/map/ This map is an interactive map titled Automating Banishment and its goal is to uncover “LAPD’s data-driven policing programs that control, displace and criminalize people and places”. The Los Angeles city attorney’s office implemented a program in 1997 titled … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Climate Change in Coming Decades

https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/ This map is an interactive map which charts the United States through the next century with our current climate change situation. This map supposes that on our current trajectory of climate change the United States’ suitable climate which humans … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Richmond VA & Virginia Crime

Before leaving for college, my parents were worried about me moving to Richmond. Richmond was notorious for its crime, specifically its murder rate when they grew up. In 1985, Richmond had 93 murders with a murder rate of 41.9 killings … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: BridgePark RVA

From the former capital of the Confederacy to redlining, the city of Richmond has a tangled past in regard to race relations. In 2012, Ted Elmore, a former partner at Hunton and Williams LLP,  created a project to reimagine the … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: NUKEMAP

Some individuals have the power to launch nuclear strikes with the ability to wipe out a parcel of land the size of Texas, Alex Wellerstein has NUKEMAP. NUKEMAP is a one man project that Wellerstein built just over ten years … Continue reading

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