The Map Scroll

Via The Map Room , NASA's Earth Observatory posts some nice images of cities at night. E.g.: From le text: Border cities like Ciudad Ju...

The New York Times raided Netflix's queue data and came up with this : It shows Netflix rental patterns by zipcode in twelve great Ameri...

Paul Krugman points to another be-mapped Brookings report , this one on the growth typologies of the 50 largest US metro areas. Here's ...

The Brookings Institution does this thing called a Metro Monitor . It monitors metros, economics-wise, and it comes with some maps. This on...

Neil Freeman's rather postmodern fake is the new real site has a graphic of the "fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregat...

Via Matt Yglesias (via Ryan Avent ), an interactive map of job listings per capita for US cities: Washington, DC has far and away the most...

Detroit is shrinking, and this map by architecture professor Dan Pitera shows just how great has been the extent of the depopulation: Back ...

Via Good , the Housing and Transportation Affordability Index has some excellent maps for several dozen US metros that pertain to housing, ...

I've lately been listening to the KunstlerCast , a podcast about "the tragic comedy of suburban sprawl," featuring James Howar...

Via Strange Maps , Thumb has this poster which overlays ring roads from around the world: According to Thumb, "This poster is designe...

One of my favorite maps that I've covered here has been this map from radical cartography showing the mass transit systems of North Ame...

Headwaters Economics, a non-profit organization focused on issues pertaining to the American West, divides that region into three types of c...

More good stuff from Good . This is from a pseudo-map depicting cuts in the budgets of transit systems around the US since the economy start...

Again via The Urbanophile , here's a graphic of rates of innovation in cities around the world: The y-axis measures "momentum: ave...

The very nice site Walk Score not only lists the 40 largest US cities by walkability , it provides heat maps of all of them so you can see w...

It's well known that in the middle of the 20th Century, the US went on an absolute binge of freeway construction. It's been good for...

It's New York City day here at The Map Scroll! Here's a link to an animated map that shows the growth of the NYC subway over time, ...

The Digital Atlas of New York City , put together by William A. Bowen of California State University, Northridge, has a bunch of interesting...

That Mondrianesque image on the right there is, believe it or not, a sort of "map." It comes from some folks at Dartmouth who wer...