"The SIDL is a think- and action-tank at Columbia University specializing in the visual display of spatial information about contemporary cities and events." Million dollar blocks, Archit & Justice. (great webdesign: red Helvetica)

Brown U mapping initiative

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to desig

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Arch & Urbanism: This area is concerned with the theory and history of the form and design of cities, including the description and transformation of settlement patterns, the imaging of urban environments, morphological and typological studies, relationsh