Tomorrow’s world
A guide to the next 150 years by BBC news graphics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130102-tomorrows-world
Author: Céline Rozenblat
Interactive maps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s letters
Everything is mappable. The letters written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are classified by place and time. So you can enter into the Space-time of the author. http://www.rousseauonline.ch/maps/maps.php
When Networks Network
The magazine Science underline the huge advance made in network analysis. Networks interact, create cascading effects…… read more in Science
Dissection of cities
I don’t know what we can learn from the physical dissection of cities: maybe some fractal analysis could work? see the website Berlin: New York City: and other cities in the website (made by...
City of London during Olympic Games, maps of twitts
The density of twitter users shows the location of people in London during the Olympic games…. impressive…… See the website: http://urbantick.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/virtual-landscape-and-peak-for-london.html London during Olympic games: Other cities:
Remote sensing tracks relentless urban spread
Looking back through the decades, these snapshots from space — created exclusively for CNN by NASA’s Landsat department in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey — reveal the impact of the vast population shift...
New Blog for the ERC project GeoDiverCity
http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/
The political Blogs networks for the French President elections
A wonderful visualization of the active networks for french elections classified by partis: see the website:
Interactive maps of the world population on the INED website
a terrific tool to give to students, children, citizens of the world…. http://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/interactive_maps/ See the instructions: publi_pdf2_pesa485
Sound Maps
To make the maps more “real”, add sounds….. In Montreal, they did it. http://www.montrealsoundmap.com/?lang=en Also England: http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx
Garamond
For the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the death of Claude Garamond http://www.garamond.culture.fr/en/english
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012 – Happy New year from University of Lausanne
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012
Citadyne in the Press
http://www.tdg.ch/blog-profs-55-blogue-mieux-comprendre-monde-possible-humour-2011-12-16
Virtual exhibition of typography
The French National Library organizes different virtual exhibitions which are very interested for who wants to learn more about history of books, print and typography. Recently, a new exhibition about the actual creation of...
New technologies are nicer in a wonderful world……..
See the parodies: Of the book: – Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uaI28LGJk – Norvegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek Of the Iphone 6 by Anthony Kavanagh (in french canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJovnFcx4DY
7 Billions of people on the Earth
Previsions of population growth: a very important topic relayed by many blogs (Urban ticks):
Twitter City Maps
See different maps of cities drawn by twitter links like this Map of San Francisco
Scale of the Universe
Magnitude of everything….. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
Africapolis
Atlas of African cities on Google Earth (of course you must have already downloaded Google Earth): Website Click on Display Africapolis data in Google Earth and then you access to many information from the...
The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land
Spatial Search – Draw a Search Area on the Map to Retreive Site Points in Google Earth WEBSITE of DAAHL