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an assortment of images that struck me in 2016

Click image to show detail. Moscow

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list of US metropolitan areas

This is a list of US cities with population over ~15k

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Madison’s building boom

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latitudes: where do you line up?

This illustration shows American and European cities on the same latitudes. I was surprised at how far south most of Europe lies compared to the United States.

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megacities are taking over

The book The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization’s Northern Future by Laurence C. Smith, along with commentary from delanceyplace.com, explain how more people now live in cities than in rural areas, and speculates on our future as urban creatures… The

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movement of new yorkers over 24 hours

Visualization based on check-ins from Foursquare, a location-based social network.

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comma separated list of United States counties

In case you need a complete CSV list of US counties for your next… killer app or whatever: united-states-counties.csv.zip

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Americentrist map of the World

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