All Buildings Map 2

Map Monday (Bonus): All The Buildings in Minnesota (and elsewhere) Mapped

• October 15, 2018

This is a very cool map from the NY Times that reminds me of the famous Nolli map of Rome. It shows all the buildings in the state on a simple black-and-white scale.

What fun to play around with!

Here are a few views of Minnesota at different scales:

All Buildings Map 1

Closer up to Mankato…

All Buildings Map 2

Closer up to the Twin Cities metro…

All Buildings Map 3

And closer up to Near North Minneapolis…

All Buildings Map 4

Bill Lindeke

About Bill Lindeke

Pronouns: he/him

Bill Lindeke has writing blogging about sidewalks and cities since 2005, ever since he read Jane Jacobs. He is a lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota Geography Department, the Cityscape columnist at Minnpost, and has written multiple books on local urban history. He was born in Minneapolis, but has spent most of his time in St Paul. Check out Twitter @BillLindeke or on Facebook.