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Maps 2014 (10) Home price mapping in France and America
Map by trulia.com There are three main ways to get data on real estate prices: conducting a study based on standard assumptions (usually comparing with neighbouring properties is factored), using...
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Industrial traditions (1) A sample
Old industrial cities in what we call usually the “western countries” are often an exemple of how hard it is to maintain an economic health on the long term, but also that this is achievable....
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Industrial traditions (2) Steel, rail and textile
Image of industrial Monterrey taken from http://fermintellez.blogspot.com.es/2007/12/fundidora-monterrey-fotos-de-ayer-y-hoy.html Lille grew by a combination of industries, mainly the textiles ; Bilbao...
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Industrial traditions (3) Cars and titanium
View Larger Map Usually a city can owe its industrial basis to a entrepreneurial population or to the arrival of external entrepreneurs. Even when most of the western countries have most of their jobs...
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Back of the envelope calculations (3) Amazon’s trails: wings vs knees
Taking as a starting point the previous post on the text about the future of employment by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, we can produce some ideas. Home delivery was until now one of those...
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Biblio (95) Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design is an initiative of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Even if sometimes from Europe such a ministry seems unlikely for the US, it has existed for decades,...
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Things I saw while on break
The Danube near Vienna, as seen from Khalenberg Hill For those that have followed this blog during the last years, here is the proof it has not disappeared. Just a small fraction of that time was a...
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Maps 2014 (36) A map of sounds of New York
They call it a map, so let’s assume it is one (by Sonos Studio). The way it interacts with people and what it conveys is unusual, yet interesting, as much as the design of the whole contraption. An...
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Maps 2014 (42) Urban Decay in the US
This map was produced in 2011 by Derek Watkins, graphic editor for the New York Times, whose portfolio is full of extremely attractive references (including details on the tools used to produce these...
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Biblio (113) The rise and fall of Manhattan’s densities
This working paper by Shlomo Angel and Patrick Lamson- Hall, researchers at the Marron Institute at NYU, studies the evolution of population densities in the built-up areas of Manhattan from 1800 to...
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