Seattle - based map - maker and urban planner Jeffrey Linn has released a series
of city maps including one for Vancouver, showing how rising sea levels might drastically change coastal living.
«In the end, I understand that the street names at issue in this case — Avidita Place, Fourberie Lane, and Cupidity Drive — are not that important to Staten Islanders; instead the real importance is that they are officially made part
of the city map,» Oddo said in a statement Thursday.
The project culminated in the publication
of a city map inspired by the visionary models developed by the youths.
The paint looks as thick and gritty as construction materials, and the broad curves of the brushwork evoke at once a drying sidewalk and a detail
of a city map.
Expert knowledge
of city map, fit with extensive experience dealing with a diverse public.
Not exact matches
For a list
of all the
cities with a current unemployment rate
of less than 4 % unemployment, here's an interactive
map.
Last month, the mayor's office unveiled a San Francisco start - up
map, which pinpoints the addresses
of about 650 start - ups within the
city limits.
And in addition, the
map lists the investors in the
city — an important facet
of the shift away from the South Bay.
For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes
of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly
mapped cases
of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district
of the
city.
Include a
map of your service area, and write out the name
of each
city that you serve.
The foundation illustrated this impossible solution in this
map, in which every little red and blue dot is the location
of a potential garden
city:
It has become a community hub, part
of a corporate commitment the company has embraced to help create jobs and opportunity for towns and
cities that might otherwise be overlooked in corporate road
maps.
Assembly Design drew inspiration from the
City of Steel when creating a vision for the space — walkways are designed to look like Pittsburgh bridges, while the wall in the open area at left is made
of cor - ten steel, and was laser - cut to depict a
map of Pittsburgh.
Here are the
maps, paintings, and old - time photographs that show the journeys
of our greatest
cities.
• If you have an Android and live in one
of the select
cities, all you have to do is update Google
Maps and look out for the «P» label.
There are a few requirements first: As
of right now, it's only available for Android users via Google
Maps for Android; additionally, only select
cities have access.
For some, a rewarding year - end tradition is settling in with a
map and a glass
of wine, tallying up all the places traveled in the past year — and making a fresh list
of cities to visit once the calendar resets.
Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a
map highlighting
cities and states that should be out
of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.
Now, to save a cached version
of the
map you're currently viewing, up to an entire
city view, a user only needs to type or say «OK
Maps» in the search box and the
map is saved for viewing later.
Or as Julia Deans, CEO
of the Toronto
City Summit Alliance, observes, «There are a lot
of question marks about what [Ford's] road
map for attracting business will look like.»
It offers detailed subway, bus, train, taxi, walking, and biking directions and official transit
maps, and a station - finder for hundreds
of cities throughout North America and Europe.
There's obviously no Google Street View or Flyover, the 3D function
of Apple's much - maligned
Maps effort, which is too bad because even Flyover can give you a sense
of where you're actually going if you're not familiar with the
city.
In that scenario, a computer is given a list
of cities and the distances between them; the challenge is to
map the shortest possible route that visits each
city just once and then returns home.
Several U.S.
cities have already been well
mapped, including Pittsburgh (home
of Uber's own self - driving technology program) and San Francisco, home
of GM's self - driving subsidiary Cruise Automation.
The
map below links to profiles
of the 20 largest job markets, each with their own ranking
of the top 10 sectors driving job postings in that
city over the past year.
• Riverside Acceleration Capital, which is part
of The Riverside Company, made an investment in Connexient, a New York
City - based provider
of indoor
mapping, navigation and location - based services for companies with large, complex buildings and campuses.
He believes many
of the
cities building big airports do not need them, thanks to a rapid expansion
of the country's high - speed rail network in recent years (see
map).
While today they both make their homes in the exclusive waterfront
city of Medina, Washington, this
map is all about birthplace.
At the San Francisco event, Apple executives also showed footage
of helicopters flying over major world
cities taking aerial photographs that will be incorporated into
Maps» three - dimensional renderings.
The
maps below show the percentage
of the
city's total units that are located in each zip code within the
city.
The private listing data in San Francisco is not as obviously skewed as some
of the other
cities we analyzed, but the
maps above still show a bias toward zip codes in and around the more costly downtown area
of the
city.
Signs hung up in front
of a vacant lot in Weeksville, Brooklyn, in 2014 by members
of 596 Acres, an organization that
maps vacant lots in New York
City and advocates for community stewardship
of th at land.
The
map also shows the density
of start - ups in San Francisco; 20 %
of the portfolio companies in our most recent fund have a primary mailing address within the
city limits
of San Francisco.
There are a few rising
cities among the top ICO markets with growing amounts
of deal activity that are not on traditional venture capital
maps at all, including Tallinn, Estonia, and Kiev, Ukraine, to name a couple.
The
map provides a visual representation
of «the space» in the form
of a
city skyline with buildings displaying the logos
of various entities.
Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment
of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally
mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose
of autonomous vehicles.
New Worker magazine, a publication that covers the future
of work, created a
map of coworking spaces that includes more than 150 spaces in greater New York
City.
This issue
of OnPolicy gives you a road
map to working poverty in nine Ontario
cities: Ottawa, London, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Waterloo Region, Sudbury, Windsor and Hamilton.
In
cities like Jacksonville and St. Louis,
maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look the same as they did decades ago, before the passage
of the landmark fair housing law.
The uptick in rents at the national level is being mirrored in many
of the nation's biggest markets — the
map below show's month - over-month rent growth for the nation's 100 largest
cities (markers are sized by population):
He
mapped out where a
city should be by adding the location
of a new constellation.
They devote a full day to visiting social ministry sites within the
city; upon their return, students form new groups to construct symbolic
maps of Atlanta that reflect their perceptions
of the
city.
Do you support the allies» fire bombing
of Dresden, wiping that
city off the
map and ki lling who knows how many thousands or tens
of thousands more?
The ancients imaged the universe in terms
of four directions or quarters horizontally, laid out relative to the society doing the
mapping, with the center
of the world located in the holy
city and / or capital
of each nation in turn.
This is happening even in New York, where a
map of the
city was recently published indicating the incidence
of AIDS.
And their differing objectives are rooted in different interests: The cab driver is interested in getting around the
city; the cartographer is interested in the art and science
of mapping urban areas.
Then we read this in the Times, one
of our local newspapers: «Joseph Rosenfeld, assistant director
of the
city's Department
of Community Affairs, said it was «unfortunate» that the Toto affair was more responsible for putting Allentown on the
map than the recent opening
of Interstate 78 to New Jersey.»
I borrow my title from Harvey Cox's well known The Secular
City, the aim
of which was to
map out and defend the relevance
of religion for «the post-literate man
of the electronic image» (TSC 11) whose urban, technological culture seemed to many so inhospitable for such an endeavor.
Many Sunday school students are familiar with the fate
of the
cities of Sodom and Gomorra: God brought down fire and brimstone, wiping them off the
map.
On the floor is a huge
map of the
city made out
of pages
of a London A-Z
map.