Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cities. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Medieval Fantasy City Generator

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This is so cool! I also wonder if it uses any generative-model ideas from urban analytics and/or complex systems? (Tip of the cap to Du...
Friday, December 30, 2016

The Surprising Population Counts of Cities: Reality Versus Psychology

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The headline and tagline of this 538.com article are misleading, but the rankings are interesting. (Surprisingly, the article doesn't b...
Sunday, July 24, 2016

Britain's First Fast-Walking Lane Opens in Liverpool

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Great Britain's first fast-walking lane has opened in Liverpool . I approve! (And I would totally take advantage of this.) (Tip of the...
Tuesday, June 07, 2016

Quantifying the Smell of Urban Areas

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My latest post in the Improbable Research blog is about using data analysis to quantify the smell of urban areas.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Visualization of Stores in Cities

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Take a look at these visualizations of cities with every store mapped. Very cool! Somebody should do some network analysis of this stuff....
Thursday, November 06, 2014

Visualizations of Street Networks

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These visualizations of street networks are gorgeous. The coloring is based on orientation. (Tip of the cap to Dave Relyea.)
Sunday, October 05, 2014

A City Named "Boson"

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Note to self: the airport to which I want to fly is in the city of "Boston", not "Boson". My search will probably be m...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Monopoly Streets in Real Life

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Here are what the streets in Monopoly (in the Atlantic City version, which is the original distributed version ) look like in real life. ...
Wednesday, January 08, 2014

It's Official: Hell Has Frozen Over

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Yup, that's right: Hell has frozen over because of the polar vortex that is sweeping (part of) the nation. Perhaps that's because ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

"Batkid"

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The Batkid story is really cool! It's nice to see something like this. (Seriously. Take a look at the link.) (Tip of the cap to Zach ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

"Get Outta Da Way!"

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Take a look at this puppet's tips for New York City tourists . Hilarious! (Tip of the cap to Maria King.)
Thursday, June 06, 2013

What Happens in (NY)^2 Stays in (NY)^2

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Today I am flying to New York City --- aka, (NY)^2 --- and will be there for the first time since July 2011. I am traveling there because o...
Sunday, December 23, 2012

Darkened Cities

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Thierry Cohen has produced some awesome pictures of what a few cities would look like if they didn't have human-made lights. I especia...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Maps and Wallpaper

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The online store Nornob has a very cool product: one can use a map from any zip code for wallpaper design. Sweet! (Tip of the cap to Jim...