Sunday Video: Skid Row, Explained
https://youtu.be/rKo8Sv99MkM
Los Angeles’ Skid Row was not an inevitability, it was a policy. Johnny Harris explains how this district of tragic poverty came to be....
Sunday Video: Making The New York City Digital Subway Map
https://youtu.be/eQE7iGp5c3U
New York City now has a dynamic digital version of the subway map that blends the best of the classic Massimo Vignelli design with...
Holiday Video: How Big Can Cities Get?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJesS4zH2GI
Davos Amos ask how big cities can get. Many megacities, largely defined as over 10 million people, are rapidly growing in industrialized countries. But...
Sunday Video: Why New York City Is So Huge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McLgpck2i7A
Johnny Harris steps back in time to find out why New York City became so successful and huge even in the age of burgeoning...
The Bizarre-est Lots of Puget Sound
During last week's discussion of subdivisions and the problem of slicing the city into tiny parcels, we asked for your help to find the...
Sunday Video: The 1850s Map That Changed How We Fight Outbreaks
https://youtu.be/VJ86D_DtyWg
The story of Dr. John Snow and the London Cholera 1854 Outbreak transformed epidemiology and our use of maps to track deadly outbreaks of...
Map of the Week: Cross-Sound Bridges for Highway Pipe Dreams
Seattle has too many urban highways, but it could have had so many more if state leaders had realized all their dreams of highway...
Latest Seattle Subway Vision Map Refines the Metro 8 Line, Adds Edmonds to Network
Seattle Subway isn't an organization to rest on its laurels. Fresh off Sound Transit 3 (ST3) success--with voters greenlighting 62 miles of light rail...