The Maps Of The Week
I was real impressed this calendar week alongside the Urban Institute's World's Apart map. The map has the uncomplicated objective of showing exclusively the top 10% nigh advantaged neighborhoods together with the neighborhoods abode to the bottom 10%. This uncomplicated thought starkly reveals the economical dividing lines inwards America's cities.
The World's Apart map shows a familiar blueprint across much of the United States, where cities are vastly divided into rich together with piteous areas. The less advantaged predominantly alive inwards dense fundamental urban neighborhoods, piece the rich alive inwards suburbs, good exterior the limits of the urban nub centers.
The map includes the selection to persuasion the information for the census years of 1990, 2000 together with 2010. This selection reveals that at that spot has been piffling alter over the decades. The blueprint of suburban wealth together with inner-city deprivation has remained largely unchanged over fourth dimension together with also shows that rich neighborhoods tend to stay rich together with the piteous neighborhoods tend to stay poor.
I conduct keep spent a lot of fourth dimension this calendar week browsing the BFI's Map of Britain on Film. The map is an amazing means to pace dorsum inwards fourth dimension together with persuasion historical cinema footage of locations throughout the UK.
Zoom-in on an surface area on the map (or purpose the search box) together with you lot tin uncovering nearby locations which characteristic inwards former films. You tin together with thence click on the displayed map markers together with sentinel a video of the selected vintage film. The map features thousands of film, providing an amazing insight into British life inwards the Twentieth Century.
As good equally searching yesteryear location, you lot tin search this mapped archive of historical cinema yesteryear decade together with yesteryear subject. I conduct keep definitely spent to a greater extent than fourth dimension viewing this map (and the linked vintage films) than whatever other map. Every dry reason should conduct keep their ain version of this map.
Stage 17 of this year's Tour de French Republic includes the pop Col d'Allos mount stage. The Col'Allos is 1 of the nigh pop mount passes inwards the Tour de France. This twelvemonth volition hold upward the 34th fourth dimension the road has been included inwards the race.
The Wall Street Journal has taken a detailed await at the large descents inwards this year's Tour de France. The Madness of the Descent looks inwards exceptional at the Col d'Allos. During Stage 17, later on a steep climb, with an average slope of 5.5%, the riders volition human face upward a 10 mile descent, where they volition lose 3,400 feet inwards vertical elevation.
The Wall Street Journal's article includes an impressive 3d map of the Cal d'Allos pass. The 3d Col D’Allos visualization was created alongside WebGL together with three.js. If you lot select 1 of the 3 yellowish map markers the graphic pans together with rotates to highlight dissimilar views of the Col D'Allos descent.
