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Electronic Arts Experience Project
Posted July 10, 2007 at 05:42 AM
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 [...]
vancouver map
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:23 PM
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 [...]
us megalopolises
Posted June 03, 2006 at 11:13 PM
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
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 [...]
food
Posted June 03, 2006 at 10:58 PM
Where does our food come from? (And where should we expect to find the "meat lobby"?) But notice the marked discontinuity in soybean production between the Dakotas and Minnesota or Iowa -- different reporting methodology, or subsidies? And why is chicken production so clustered? Questions too sophisticated to be answered by these simple maps, [...]
