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Hearing Through Maps: Mapping London’s Hidden Waterways
How to map sounds within a city? London was iconically represented when Harry Beck employed circuits to map intersecting pathways of the Underground, creating an icon of the city: the success of Beck's...
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The Swarming of Silicon Valley
"Silicon Valley" was only mentioned in maps of California maps, but soon emerged as a unique space of speculation, both distinguished by its consumer products and able to attract investment and...
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Deep Blue Openings in an Increasingly Sound-Filled World
The detection of sound provides a primary registers by which we are able to judge spatial relations and experience space. But sensitivity to auditory sensations may be increasingly compromised to...
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Fit to Print?
The making of maps might be interestingly situated within historically situated economies of visual attention. From their insertion at conspicuous places within some of the earliest printed world...
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Into the Woods? or, Is Big Data Enough?
Environmental preservation recently received welcome if unexpected help from big data and the technology of remote global sensing to construct a comprehensive map of forest growth and loss that can...
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Is Staten Island Bigger than Manhattan?
The somewhat counter-intuitive answer is not only “yes,” but by twice as much–Staten Island, that somewhat neglected borough of an otherwise racially diverse metropolis known as Gotham; its landmass is...
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Notes on the Rise of Remotely-Sensed War
The United States government has engaged in sustained military engagement with “non-state actors” or trans-national armed groups over the past fifteen years. The fight against these unnamed armies...
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Alternative Metrics of America’s Divided Economy #3
Sinologist Simon Leys wryly described the “ironical paradox” of contemporary life that leisure–once a category cultivated as an aid to the good life–is dismissed by members of an elite who condemn...
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Droughtshaming
Will #droughtshaming change the public consumption of water in California, or is it only a manifestation of an all too long-submerged consciousness of evident property differences across most of...
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Palmyra in the World and on the World Wide Web
The story of Palmyra, not “just another town on the map,” according to the NBC Nightly News, but a site for “erasing history” in the ancient Roman city whose destruction was both feared as part of a...
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Sites of Internment and Surveillance Hidden in the American West
The landscape of the forced migration of Japanese Americans in the years after Peal Harbor seems an aberration of the legal culture of the United States, as well as a mar on national identity. But did...
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Refugee Traffic Scars the Globe’s Surface
Despite the dramatic frenzy revealed in Global Trends of Migration, what image of interconnectedness does the compelling visualization truly reveal? While foregrounded in an equidistant projection to...
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Around the World in Undersea Internet Cables
The vastness of laying privately-funded underseas cables around the world, some stretching over 28,000 kilometers long, is perhaps the most massive engineering feat on earth that is hidden to human...
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Shrinking Shores
Interactive maps cause us to rethink shorelines and how the land meets the water. This is especially the case for population centers particularly low-lying, where there has been a huge investment of...
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Sleeping Roads, Unidentified Corridors, and Paper Towns
Even in an age when LiDAR remote sensing has displaced the authority of land-surveying, and Google Maps more often objects of wayfinding than print, areas of the country affirm the authority of paper...
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Visualizing the Footprints of Factory Farms across the Lower 48
The arrival of the anthropocene is rarely related to the congestion of farming, but in a sense begins from the poor stewardship of the land. And the distancing between food production and consumption...
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Looking for the Local in the Age of Unilever
Vermont’s long-lived appreciation of dairy no doubt helped promote the home-grown qualities of what once passed as artisanal ice cream in America–as much as its pioneering of the super-premium swirled...
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Fenced In/Forced Out
Razor-wire grotesquely tops off the four-meter high fence at Hungary’s border with Serbia. The barricade that follows a line drawn on a map was built over the summer by the government of Viktor Orbán...
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The Less Visible Paths of Economic Giving
At the same time as Pope Francis elegantly entreats all to view the world less through the distortions of economic markets–and without forgetting those who are all too often overlooked–we rightly...
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The New Xenophobia
One of the scarier consequences of the Paris Terror Attacks are the waves of renewed xenophobia that have swept Europe’s already seething right wing, and somewhat surprisingly travelled across the...
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