A decent breakdown of all things real and fake news. Commute Maps Reveal a US Divided by Megaregions Even if you don’t hate your commute—even on the days free of gridlock, packed buses, and sweaty uphill bike rides—it’s probably tinged by a least a little drudgery. Not your favorite part of day, perhaps? Maybe, though, you'll feel better knowing you're taking part in a powerful economic movement. That’s why Rae and Dartmouth College geographer Garrett Dash Nelson zoomed in on commutes in their newest study of American megaregions, published this week in PLoS ONE. Sidebar, for math: The researchers started with an American Community Survey dataset of more than four million commuter flows, marking the travel patterns of 130 million Americans. This Spirograph-esque blob doesn't help planners all that much, because it doesn’t reveal the contours of the megaregion, or which routes are the most vital to keeping the area's workers on the move. A word of warning: As with cakes, smoothies, and Facebook, maps are only as good as the stuff that goes into them.
Nicholas Felton 16 Best Maps of 2016 Now that 2016 is finally over, we thought it would be fun to look back at our most popular maps from last year. (We did the same thing for the Top 15 Maps of 2015 last year.) The maps below are ranked on the number of visitors each received in 2016. As you’ll see some are older posts that got a second lease on life, while most are brand new to 2016. Enjoy: 16. 2016 US Presidential Election Map By County & Vote Share Map created by Magog the Ogre via Wikimedia First Published: November 29, 2016 Comments: The surprise US election result proved to be an especially popular topic in 2016. 15. Map created by City design – designing the city found via reddit First Published: September 2, 2015 Comments: This was our 8th most popular map in 2015, but it continues to strike a chord with many users in the Netherlands. 14. Map created by reddit user scolbert08 First Published: April 21, 2015 13. First Published: April 5, 2016 Comments: One of our more in-depth posts about the world’s longest road. 12. 11. 9. 8.
Spain's 'Robin Hood Restaurant' Charges The Rich And Feeds The Poor Volunteers serve free dinner to homeless people at Robin Hood restaurant in Madrid. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images Volunteers serve free dinner to homeless people at Robin Hood restaurant in Madrid. On a frigid winter night, a man wearing two coats shuffles into a brightly lit brick restaurant in downtown Madrid. The man, Luis Gallardo, is homeless — and so are all the diners, every night, at the city's Robin Hood restaurant. It's become Spain's most sought-after lunch reservation. A dinner patron chats with Father Angel (right), who says that he wants homeless people to "eat with the same dignity as any other customer." A dinner patron chats with Father Angel (right), who says that he wants homeless people to "eat with the same dignity as any other customer." The restaurant opened in early December, and is run by an 80-year-old Catholic priest, Ángel García Rodriguez, whom everyone knows simply as "Padre Ángel."
Les villes américaines / La ségrégation raciale des villes américaines diminue-t-elle toujours ? Posted by urbanites on mercredi, novembre 9, 2016 · Leave a Comment Sylvestre Duroudier L’article de S. Duroudier au format PDF Trop souvent, à l’occasion d’un fait divers, la question raciale ressurgit dans les médias à propos des villes américaines : Ferguson en 2014, Charleston en 2015… Ces évènements contribuent à replacer les ghettos et les formes les plus exacerbées de la ségrégation raciale au cœur des débats. Et la question est d’autant plus vive dans un contexte urbain en pleine mutation : réorientation libérale des politiques urbaines (Wilson, 2007), métropolisation, renouveau des centres, des processus qui participeraient à une polarisation raciale accrue dans les villes des États-Unis. Cet article comporte deux objectifs qui visent à éclairer cette question. De la baisse de la ségrégation au « global neighborhood » Une baisse de la ségrégation dans les villes des États-Unis depuis 1990 1. 2. 3. Le tournant de la diversité dans la recherche urbaine 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Bibliographie
The Shortest Route for Seeing Nearly 50,000 Historic Places in One Trip 173Share2 The U.S. has a treasure trove of historic sites to visit, but geography makes it nearly impossible to visit them all in one trip—or does it? Led by University of Waterloo professor William Cook, a team of researchers used Google Maps and the famous “traveling salesman" mathematics problem to figure out the shortest route to see every single site on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, as Travel + Leisure reports. The trip covers more than 217,605 miles and includes more than 49,600 sites, ending back at the original starting point. Even with hundreds of University of Waterloo computers working on the problem, solving it took four international researchers two years. If you don’t have enough time to visit every single historic building, home, landmark, and monument on the list, the researchers did put together region-specific versions of the tour, too. [h/t Travel + Leisure] All images courtesy William Cook.
The Netherlands Sets Up Abortion Fund in Challenge to Trump Policy The Dutch government is already making steps to fill the gap that will be left by US President Donald Trump’s “Global Gag Rule,” a federal ban on all funding to international health organizations that administer or discuss abortion. In response, the Netherlands’ development minister Lilianne Ploumen has announced a plan for a new international fund to finance access to birth control and abortion. “Banning abortion doesn’t lead to fewer abortions,” she said in a statement. “It leads to more irresponsible backstreet practices and a higher death rate among mothers.” “We need to compensate for this financial blow as much as possible, with a broad-based fund which governments, businesses and civil society organizations can donate to — so that women can remain in control of their own bodies.” Read More: Trump Targets Women's Healthcare in One of His First Actions As President Read More: March on Ladies, Your Guide to Taking Action After the Women's March The risks posed by the policy are clear. or
Here's Everyone Who's Immigrated to the U.S. Since 1820 From 1820 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. The interactive map below visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. Use the controls at the bottom to stop / resume the animation or to move back and forth in time. Two Centuries of U.S. Over time, the sources of immigration trace a clear path across the world. Through most of the 1800’s, immigration came predominantly from Western Europe (Ireland, Germany, the U.K.). Here are the largest immigration “waves” charted over time, showing the progression. While it may seem that immigration over the last few decades has been higher than ever before, the picture looks very different when viewed relative to the size of the U.S. population. Here is the same chart, with the immigration shown as a percentage of the U.S. population. Credit: Embed as HD video: Follow Metrocosm Related Credit: