by Nicola | Oct 17, 2012
What do you see when you map the world through food? IMAGE: Strips from five of the seventy-plus maps in Food: An Atlas. According to Food: An Atlas, a crowd-sourced, crowd-funded, “guerrilla cartography” project led by UC Berkeley professor Darin Jensen,... by Nicola | Oct 8, 2012
IMAGE: Mexico City street market captured by Google Earth, part of a set curated by urbanTick. Fabian Neuhaus of the blog urbanTick has assembled a collection of aerial images of Mexico City’s street markets, as captured by Google Earth. IMAGE: Mexico City... by Nicola | Oct 5, 2012
Inspired by Stephen Von Worley’s wonderful The Contiguous United States Visualized by Distance to the Nearest McDonalds, doctoral astronomy student Jim Davenport decided to map “not only how Starbucks were distributed across the USA […] but how we... by Nicola | Oct 4, 2012
Earlier this year, Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG and I launched a new project, Venue, in partnership with the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment and Studio-X NYC, and with the generous support of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), Nevada... by Nicola | Oct 2, 2012
IMAGE: The cover of Urban Farms shows Greensgrow Farm, Philadelphia. Photograph by Matthew Benson. On page sixty of Sarah Rich’s new book, Urban Farms, she quotes Mary Seton Corboy, founder of Greensgrow in North Philadelphia, saying, “Urban agriculture is...