October 7, 2014

Amazing Maps: The Age of Megacities

Latest tweet from @JSadikKhan:

Stunning maps of urban growth over decades. We can’t just build bigger. Time to build smarter.

These esri maps live up to their billing: beautiful and interactive, if not overwhelming.
For example, the Los Angeles urban footprint in 1907:
LA 1

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And today:
LA 2

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Only took a century, and that’s modest compared to some of the other cities you can see here.

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