Just read this in the Sunday New York Times Metropolitan section, thought these may be relevant for a few projects. The last time I tried
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MapMap Vauxhall: Mind Warping Maps
MapMap Vauxhall by Benedickt Groß transforms OpenStreetMaps to match hand drawn mental maps of a neighborhood. Where the NYPL’s Map Warper conforms historical maps to
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The Ginger Island Project- Could be useful for the Fluxus Mapping Project?
I’ll admit- this is mostly for Danielle but could be interesting to others- I stumbled upon this the other and figured it may be useful
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Music Mapping in NYC
Since I have changed my topic to mapping live music venues/halls in New York City I have spent some time doing research on the different
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A History of the World in 100 Seconds
Perhaps some of you have seen this already, but I just came across this very interesting data visualization of Wikipedia-referenced historic events, and thought I’d
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Mapping Manhattan’s Coffee Addiction
I am not sure if someone was mapping coffee shops…or just book stores in Manhattan. But as I was researching for my map critique I
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Mapping GeoCities
Hey all found this article in GOOD this morning on how Dutch designer, Richard Vijen, plotted all data from the former GeoCities into a scrollable
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City-as-Archive: Migrant Networks
There are 800 different languages spoken around the city of New York. A recent article infers that a significant portion of these languages are oral only,
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“If You Were to Make a City…”
This was in the Metropolitan section of the New York Times on Sunday September 11, 2011. Not the best maps/diagrams I have seen them produce
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Scientific American’s Cities Issue
This is more relevant to the “urban” part of the class than the “media archaeology” part, but Scientific American magazine’s September issue is all about
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