Mark AbrahamDec 18, 2022

The entire city of Florence, Italy could fit within this highway interchange in Atlanta.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2014/06/13/the-whole-city-of-florence-could-fit-inside-an-atlanta-interchange/

#firenze #urbanplanning #urbanism #highwayremoval #cities #walkability #sustainability #climatecrisis #sprawl #atlanta

The Whole City of Florence Could Fit Inside an Atlanta Interchange

It’s incredible how much we’ve given up in the United States all so we can travel slightly faster by car. The above graphic, revived by Lloyd Alter at Network blog Treehugger this week …

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Valerie ReishukDec 20, 2022
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(2/n) Entire city of Siena, Italy (population 30,000) fits inside of a highway interchange in Houston, Texas (population 0): @stamen https://stamen.com/introducing-scale-a-tron-91081062e2d0/ #siena #houston #urbanism #urbanplanning #highwayremoval #cities #sprawl #transportation
Introducing Scale-a-Tron | Stamen

By Eric Brelsford and Alan McConchie It’s hard to believe that it was only one a month ago when the Ever Given container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal. As cartographers, one of our favorite memes from the Ever Given era was the Ever Given Ever Ywhere tool built by Garrett Dash Nelson, that...

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Show threadMark AbrahamDec 27, 2022
(3/n) A new highway interchange in Chicago, and Split, Croatia, shown at the same scale, via Hayden Clarkin #urbanism #urbanplanning #chicago #croatia
Show threadWalker Boh🛡Dec 19, 2022
@urbandata @stamen driving from one side of Houston to the other takes circa two hours so that gives you some idea of the sprawl that is Houston
Show threadWerewolf Bar KochbaDec 19, 2022
@urbandata @stamen i think they should leave siema where it is