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Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Two weeks ago, in response to a crowd-sourced catcalling map from students at the University of North Carolina, I suggested that men should be bann…
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Mapping LA's Broken Sidewalks
The Los Angeles Times has mapped LA's broken sidewalks. Over the last five years the city's 311 service request system has received 19,000 …
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The Los Angeles Resistance Map
Fans of USA Network's science fiction television series 'Colony' can explore the near-future dystopian Los Angeles portrayed in the sho…
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The Homeless of LA
In January the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority carried out a survey of the homeless in Los Angeles County. The survey estimated that there …
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The Nice Guys Maps of 1970's LA
The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, is set in 1970's Los Angeles. If you want to re-familiarize yourself with LA in the …
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The SB 827 Interactive Los Angeles Map
Buying a home in California is very expensive. Particularly in the state's biggest cities. One solution would be to build more affordable housi…
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Closing America's Ports
A dispute between dock unions and port authorities in the United States has led to the almost complete shut-down of a quarter of the United States&…
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The Dogs of LA
There are a lot of little Princesses on the Dogs of L.A. map. The map uses data from dog licences to map the most popular dog names and dog breeds …
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Making L.A. Safer for Pedestrians
If there is one city in the USA that really needs a Vision Zero initiative it is Los Angeles. Over 2,800 people have lost their lives on the street…
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They Paved Paradise ...
Forty years ago the Los Angeles City Council adopted some of Joni Mitchell's lyrics as a mission statement. They made it their intended purpose…
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Domestic Violence in Los Angeles
Two weeks ago, in response to a crowd-sourced catcalling map from students at the University of North Carolina, I suggested that men should be bann…
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The Mapped Guide to Walking in L.A.
It isn't true that no one walks in Los Angeles and, despite all claims to the contrary, there are some great places to walk in the city. To hel…
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The SB-50 Impact Map
In an attempt to address California's housing supply crisis Senator Scott Wiener has introduced a bill which is designed to encourage the buildi…
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Mapping LA by Night
Just Downtonw's LA Streetlights is an interactive map of street-lighting in Los Angeles. The map features dark extruded building footprints lit…
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Watch Los Angeles Grow
We are definitely witnessing a mini revolution in the presentation of building age maps. A couple of weeks ago the map team at the City of Amsterd…
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Mapping LA's 20 Year Mobility Plan
The Los Angeles City Council has released a new Mobility Plan designed to decrease the use of cars and improve conditions for the city's cyclis…
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A Safe Walk in LA
The Los Angeles Times has mapped over half a million pedestrian accidents in L.A. County in order to visualize the county's most dangerous inte…
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The Homeless Should Sleep at Home
Mahatma Gandhi once noted that "the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." Let's exp…
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