et après ça, la ville

Harry Beck’s Paris Métro diagram, 1951

Clear enough.

transitmaps:

Unofficial Interactive Map: Annual Passenger Entries into the Paris Metro (2011)

(Source: Data Publica via @grescoe)

Pauvre Église d’Auteuil !

(via adhocratic)

nickkahler:

Mario Gandelsonas, X-Urbanism, c. 1970s (via NLDR; midoriblues)

Midwestern settlement patterns

Voronoi diagram for Starbucks locations in the States

(My favorite thing about Los Angeles is that it’s always incomplete, equal parts disappointment and thrilling potential. It’s the anticipation that holds us here.)

motherjones:

In light of Mitt Romney’s now-infamous statement about the “47 percent,” it’s worth taking a look at which states actually benefits the most from federal taxes.

Can we all at least agree to ban the Mercator projection ?

Anti-Starbucks map of London

lettersfromhere:

Map from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard showing various degrees of suburbanization by metros over the past decade. Note that only a few places showed core population share gain.

Green is “core city share” gain, orange is loss. In other words, orange equals more sprawl. Full key here:  The Urbanophile » Blog Archive » Infographic: Sprawl Is Alive and Well

Urban cores are growing faster, but the suburbs are still growing more.

Manifest destiny

Foreclosures mapped over African-American population, Oakland

If the world’s population lived in one city, how large would that city be if it were as dense as Paris ?

(Not the three states I’d have chosen.)

archimaps:

Pierre Patte’s composite map of Paris with rival projects for a Place Louis XV, published in 1765