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Electronic Arts Experience Project
Posted July 10, 2007 at 05:42 AM by hkman
The Electronic Arts Experience Project in the Peak Tower mall at the terminus of the Tram Station on the Peak offers the only retail experience from EA that I've seen. The project itself is a two-story architectural edifice built in the foyer at the top of the Peak Tower shopping center, just off the observation deck. The project [...]
us megalopolises
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:13 PM by brankin
When the term "Megalopolis" was first introduced by Jean Gottmann in 1961, the Eastern seabord of the US was already seen as a new urban form: what he called "BosWash." Gottmann predicted that two other regions -- "SanSan" and "ChiPitts" -- would also form megalopolises as they continued to build shared transportation and communication [...]
north american rail
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:05 PM by brankin
The rail network of North America continues to consolidate, but it is beginning to become transnational as well. Since NAFTA, Canadian National has acquired several US regional railways, and Kansas City Southern has purchased Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana -- both part of a drive towards a "NAFTA Rail" alliance. Together the eight Class I [...]
native american reservations
Posted June 03, 2006 at 10:46 PM by brankin
American Indian reservations are sovereign areas with a state-to-state relationship to the US Congress, but congressional authority overrides tribal law. Reservations are generally not subject to state jurisdiction. What mapping convention corresponds to this political arrangement? One could make a case that reservations should be drawn as part of [...]
vancouver map
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:23 PM by brankin
Vancouver districts emerge as a patchwork of different street-naming conventions: all "streets" downtown, a "street"/"avenue" weave through most of the city, but with exceptional areas like the "street"/"drive" zone of Grandview, the "roads" and "malls" of the university, or the paths cut by Broadway and the Kingsway.
Also notice how the [...]
