The Washington Post just published this interactive feature showing new developed land (i.e. urban sprawl) across the US between 2001 and 2019. It is based on these land cover maps which were published by the US Geological Survey earlier in the summer. Their findings show… Read More
More than half of Amazon’s US deliveries are now completed using its own fleet. So at some point, the company will no longer need to rely on FedEx and/or UPS. It’s also on track to quickly surpass them in terms of packages delivered per year,… Read More
I rediscovered the maps and work of Alasdair Rae this morning. (He has appeared on this blog before in posts like this one here.) Alasdair works in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield and is author of the blog,… Read More
For those of you who are regular readers of this blog, you’ll know that I love to snowboard and that I leave Ontario every winter in search of fresh lines. It is an annual tradition that has been going on for over a decade. One… Read More
It has been a while since I shared a Kickstarter campaign on the blog and this one caught my attention: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1505932940/map-art-prints/widget/card.html?v=2 If you can’t see the project embedded above, click here. The project is colorful abstract art maps of anywhere in the world. You can… Read More
PLOS One recently published a paper and a set of maps that looks at commuter flows across the United States (over 4 million data points). The objective was to identify all of the country’s “megaregions.” Here is one of those maps. I think it says a… Read More
Starting today and running until the end of March, the City of Toronto, the Toronto Transit Commission, and Metrolinx will be hosting several public meetings as they work towards planning out this city and region’s rapid transit network. Below are a few of the key… Read More
When I was very young I went a Montessori school here in Toronto. If you’re not familiar with Montessori education, it’s basically a very open ended and independent form of learning. Students choose what they want to do. Because of this, many have argued that… Read More
