MetaFilter posts tagged with urbanization

the secure solution to ultra-urbanization

Brian B. — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:49:50 -0800

Ferris wheel parking versus automated stacking.

Koyaanisqatsi

phrontist — Sat, 10 May 2008 23:59:12 -0800

Sorry, Alaska and Hawaii. Build more roads.

desjardins — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:50:17 -0800

Two visualization projects: All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image. And zipdecode, a unique map of US zipcodes.

We built this (first) city on rock (and roll)

The Michael The — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:26:20 -0800

Art of the First Cities. An excellent online gallery courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art focusing on the beginnings of urbanization that have led to the city as a heart of the Western world. More on the brick-and-mortar exhibit here and, as a special bonus, another great online exhibit of artifacts of the Greek world from the Penn Museum (available in Greek too!)