The Real-Time 15 City Map

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The concept of the ’15 Minute City’ aims to make urban living more livable and sustainable by ensuring that all essential individual needs can be met without reliance on a car or public transport. It’s a very simple idea: ideally, an individual’s essential needs should be accessible within a short travel distance.Such a simple concept deserves a suitably simple-to-understand map. CThood Maps Mania… more →
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30 Days of Crashes in New York City

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Between June 16th and July 15th, 149 people were injured by cars in the planned New York congestion zone and 4 people were killed.At the beginning of June New York Governor Kathy Hochul canceled New York City’s planned congestion zone. Under the planned congestion zone vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan would have been charged a fee. In response to Maps Mania… more →
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Guess This City – Daily Challenge

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Unveil the World with ‘Guess This City’: A New Daily Map-Based GameGet ready to embark on a new global adventure from the comfort of your home with the launch of ‘Guess This City,’ a new daily map-based game. Every day brings a new test of your geographical knowledge and deduction skills as you are challenged to identify hidden cities by revealing parts of a map, one click at a time.Discover Maps Mania… more →
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Slim City

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For a number of years I’ve had the idea of creating an incremental game which involves slowly creating a city map by adding different map elements over time. This week I decided to try and put that idea into action. The result is Slim City, an idle game which requires you to click on building footprints on an interactive map to build and create a map of a city neighborhood.In Slim City the more Maps Mania… more →
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There are 2,773 stories in the Naked City

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The 1960’s procedural police series the Naked City used to conclude every episode with the line: “There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” If there are eight million stories in New York then The City has got quite a long way to go before it is finished reporting on them. So far it has managed to find only 2,773 stories in NYC.The City asked ChatGPT to find Maps Mania… more →
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The City Map Game

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I really like the game SF-Street-Names, which I reviewed Monday in the post The Streets of San Francisco Game. In fact I liked SF-Street-Names so much that I immediately started trying to see if I could replicate the game for a different city. In Monday’s post I linked to my quick demo map Denver Street Names, which was a very quick hack of a SF-Street-Names type game for Denver.Today I decided Maps Mania… more →
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The City of Women Subway Map

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Barcelona, like New York and London, now has a reimagined subway map designed to celebrate and recognise the lives of some of the city’s most remarkable women. The Barcelona City of Women subway map highlights the extraordinary contribution of women to the Catalan capital. On the Ciutat de Dones map every station on Barcelona’s metro network and all the stops on the city’s railway network has Maps Mania… more →
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Do You Live in a 15 Minute City?

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A 15 Minute City is an urban environment which promotes a sustainable future by ensuring that all the essential needs of individuals can be accessed without having to get in a car or use public transport. These essential needs include such things as grocery stores, health care facilities, cultural attractions, transit stops, educational facilities and leisure activities. Individuals living in a Maps Mania… more →
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