Square-Mile Street Network Visualization
The heart of Allan Jacobs’ classic book on street-level urban form and design, Great Streets, features dozens of hand-drawn figure-ground diagrams in the style of Nolli maps. Each depicts one square mile of a city’s street network. Drawing these cities at the same scale provides a revealing spatial objectivity in visually comparing their street networks and urban forms.
We can recreate these visualizations automatically with Python and the OSMnx package, which I developed as part of my dissertation. With OSMnx we can download a street network from OpenStreetMap for anywhere in the world in just one line of code. Here are the square-mile diagrams of #Portland, #San_Francisco, #Irvine, and #Rome created and plotted automatically by OSMnx.
La vidéo réjouissante de l’intervention des 11 d’Irvine (#irvine11) :
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcaryZbL3gE
Muslim college students convicted of disrupting speech | Reuters
►http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/23/us-muslim-students-california-idUSTRE78M5Q820110923
Ten Muslim college students from Southern California were convicted on Friday of unlawfully disrupting a speech by Israel’s ambassador to the United States last year.
The verdict followed two full days of deliberations by a six-man, six-woman jury in the case, which touched off a furor at the university over free speech rights.
Spectators began wailing in the packed courtroom when the verdicts were read by a court clerk, and about 50 people left the courtroom visibly upset.
The defendants, who are all in their early twenties, could face jail terms.
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