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Radiooooo - The Musical Time Machine
Pick a decade and country from any on the map, and listen to music of times and places around the world.
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Scientists discover an ocean 400 miles beneath our feet that could fill our oceans three times over
After decades of theorizing and searching, scientists are reporting that they've finally found a massive reservoir of water in the Earth's mantle -- a reservoir so vast that could fill the Earth's oceans three times over.
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The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For the Poor, Geography Matters.
For poor Americans, the place they call home can be a matter of life or death. The poor in some cities — big ones like New York and Los Angeles, and also quite a few smaller ones like Birmingham, Ala. — live nearly as long as their middle-class neighbors or have seen rising life expectancy in the 21st century. But in some other parts of the country, adults with the lowest incomes die on average as young as people in much poorer nations like Rwanda, and their life spans are getting shorter.
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The Quest for Inclusive Economic Development
How can cities grow their economies without alienating poorer residents?
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The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t telling you
How to tell two radically different stories with the same dataset.
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The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings
Scientists are investigating the emotional toll of ugly architecture.
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How the slum women of Ahmedabad led a housing revolution
The Indian city where Gandhi established his first ashram can be gruelling if you live in a slum: 50C temperatures, poor ventilation, no running water. A group of women had had enough and agreed to work with developers.
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A New Map for America
The 50-state model is holding the country back. It needs a new system, built around urban corridors.
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The Age of Megacities: Interactive Tool Tracks the Explosive Expansion of the World's Urban Spaces
Examining swelling urban borders over the past 100 years.
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The Fading Distinction Between City and Suburb
As high-income people return to cities and urban neighborhoods, they bring much of their suburban lifestyle with them.
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The trig pillars that helped map Great Britain
Ordnance Survey celebrates 80 years of the trig pillars that helped map Great Britain.
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The Arctic Suicides: It's Not The Dark That Kills You
Greenland has the world's highest suicide rate. And teen boys are at the highest risk.
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The Value of a City's 'StreetScore'
An ongoing project from MIT uses an algorithm to predict the safety of streets, helping researchers and urban planners better understand cities.
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The American Geographical Society Library
Within the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is a geographer’s treasure trove: over a million artifacts from the American Geographical Society, one of the most incredible collections of maps, atlases and globes to be found anywhere in America.
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How the Other Fifth Lives
For years now, people have been talking about the insulated world of the top 1 percent of Americans, but the top 20 percent of the income distribution is also steadily separating itself — by geography and by education as well as by income. This self-segregation of a privileged fifth of the population is changing the American social order and the American political system.
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How Jane Jacobs changed the way we look at cities
When I first encountered this doyenne of urban activism, she offered one of the sharpest critiques I’d ever heard. Jane Jacobs was relentless, and stood up to anyone in her quest to understand what really makes a city.
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How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World
We’re now moving toward a new era where insular, political boundaries are no longer as relevant. More and more people are identifying as “global citizens,” and that’s because we’re all more connected than we’ve ever been before. As a result, a “systems change” is taking place in the world today in which cities—not nations—are the key global players, argues Parag Khanna in his new book, Connectography: Mapping the Future of the Global Civilization.
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A Slice of the Confederacy in the Interior of Brazil
A city in São Paulo State that Americans fled to after the Civil War still celebrates Dixie culture, unencumbered by the debate raging in the U.S. over whether Confederate symbols promote racism.
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National Park Maps
The U.S. National Park Service publishes tons of great free maps; I’ve collected them all for you here. On this site you can download 1,053 free PDF and high-resolution image files of U.S. national park maps.
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Unplugging the Colorado River
Could the end be near for one of the West’s biggest dams?
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