maps – Mark Larson

2015-12-222017-11-12 ~ Mark

I love the idea that the buildings seen here take their form from a lost street—that an old throughway since scrubbed from the surface of Los Angeles has reappeared in the form of contemporary architectural space. That is, someone’s living room is actually shaped the way it is not because of something peculiar to architectural history, but because of a ghost street, or the wall of perhaps your very own bedroom takes its angle from a right of way that, for whatever reason, long ago disappeared.

2015-09-282017-11-12 ~ Mark

Atlanta’s MARTA Map – Super Mario 3 Style.

2015-07-262017-11-12 ~ Mark

The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips | Atlas Obscura.

2015-04-112017-11-12 ~ Mark

Mapped: How hard it is to get across U.S. cities using only bike lanes – The Washington Post.

We’d never build a street grid that looks like this and expect drivers to navigate the city through it.

2014-12-032017-11-12 ~ Mark

jomc:

May 2012: Students in Quebec were asked to send protest march route to the cops & they replied with this: (via https://twitter.com/OccupyRMN/status/538956005422690304)

2014-09-092017-11-12 ~ Mark

Louisiana Loses Its Boot — Matter — Medium.

According to the U.S.G.S., the state lost just under 1,900 square miles of land between 1932 and 2000. This is the rough equivalent of the entire state of Delaware dropping into the Gulf of Mexico, and the disappearing act has no closing date. If nothing is done to stop the hemorrhaging, the state predicts as much as another 1,750 square miles of land — an area larger than Rhode Island — will convert to water by 2064. An area approximately the size of a football field continues to slip away every hour.

2013-11-152017-11-12 ~ Mark

How a Densely Populated Neighborhood Became Turner Field: A Map Essay | Georgia State University Library Blog.

2013-10-282017-11-12 ~ Mark

Cartography: The true true size of Africa | The Economist. Speaking of Africa, the place is huge.

2013-05-312017-11-12 ~ Mark

Concrete Jungle » Food Map.

An ongoing project to document food sources in the Atlanta area. It is very incomplete and constantly changing, so if you know about a great fruit tree or other food source that you think should be on the map, please add it to the map!

Currently in season: blackberry, mulberry, plum, and serviceberry. Gotta get my harvest on.

2012-12-29 ~ Mark

Maps are not only about space, they’re also about time: maps are frozen journeys.

Margaret Atwood.

2012-11-272017-11-12 ~ Mark

Supply of Per Capita Football Talent.

This chart comes from a paper presented by Theodore Goudge, an associate professor in the department of geography at Northwest Missouri State University, at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. It pretty clearly shows what Goudge referred to as the “pigskin cult” of the south.

The paper in question is “The Geography of College Football Player Origins & Success: Football Championship Subdivision (FCS)”, here’s an abstract. Featured in On Urban Meyer’s Ohio State, Wisconsin, and the Big Ten expanding to include Maryland and Rutgers – Grantland.

2012-05-222017-11-12 ~ Mark

Eating on Buford Highway. (via)

(Source: http://maps.google.com/)

2012-01-302017-11-12 ~ Mark

Take Care of Your Choropleth Maps. Great overview of how some seemingly simple tweaks in the data limits, colors, etc. can result in a different story.

2011-11-282017-11-12 ~ Mark

Atlanta, Then and Now (1871 to 2011) – The Atlantic Cities. Awesome set of comparisons. Same spot, different day. This lot has been forlorn for a century:

Sad, eternally empty lot at Fulton Street and Pryor Street, Atlanta

Albert Ruger’s 1871 map of Atlanta is so good. See also his map of Chicago, 1868.

2011-09-212017-11-12 ~ Mark

A History of Map Monsters. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum – Abraham Ortelius, 1570.

2011-09-152017-11-12 ~ Mark

Map of Atlanta on a pizza. Via The Making of Modern Suburban Atlanta; or, The Great Dunwoody Tennis Boom of 1991 « pecanne log. Love me some Pecanne Log.

2011-06-072017-11-12 ~ Mark

Art Space Tokyo. If my vacation wasn’t the last-minute cluster that I seem to specialize in, I would have purchased this book ahead of time. Luckily, Craig Mod is kind and has some awesome Tokyo art maps online, too.

2011-05-242017-11-12 ~ Mark

The Frugal Traveler’s guide to ramen shops in Tokyo. I love the internet.

(Source: http://maps.google.com/)

2011-04-072017-11-12 ~ Mark

Pre-interstate Atlanta, 1919 by the Foote & Davies Company.

This is an image from the 1919 Foote and Davies map of Atlanta, taken from the very cool Big Map Blog. We can see what the built environment of downtown Atlanta looked like (and might have continued to look like) before the interstates and their ramps sliced wide chasms of asphalt and concrete through the area.

I’m trying to imagine Atlanta if we got rid of the I-75/I-85 Connector and did a Cheonggyecheon-style restoration. I can dream.

2011-04-04 ~ Mark

The fact that a place is out of fashion, forgotten or not yet on the map doesn’t make it less interesting, just more itself.

Paul Theroux. Reminds me of one of my early tumble quotes:

Good travel writing contends honestly and openly with presumptions of who is traveling and why… and it does not treat local people as though their lives were just incidental, conveniently or inconveniently producing conditions for others’ escapism.