Miami Geo Quiz #15: Columns of Remembrance
How well do you know the spaces and places constituting greater metropolitan Miami? Miami Geo Quiz #15: Check out the two images below. Answer the following questions: (1) Where — be […]
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Miami Geo Quiz #14: Dividing Rocks
How well do you know the spaces and places constituting greater metropolitan Miami? Miami Geo Quiz #14: Look at the image below. From what structure was this scene photographed? Good luck, […]
Visit Space Station Earth’s ‘Miami Colony’ via Mapbox
City Lab is reporting today on a highly stylized “futuristic digital map skin” developed for Mapbox by freelance graphic designer Eleanor Lutz. The skin is hyper-industrial and metallic-looking, thus making it […]
A Look at Miami’s Birth, 118 Years Later
The year 1896 is etched deeply into the minds of most Miamians. (Well, if it wasn’t before, it will be now.) That’s the year Miami incorporated and became a municipality — what, […]
Miami Geo Quiz #13: Populist Propaganda: Killing Castro
How well do you know the spaces and places constituting greater metropolitan Miami? Miami’s Cubans dominate many facets of the local political economy. Amongst the Cuban community in Miami, there’s nearly […]
Into Perspective: Miami World City Distances
How far is Miami from the other major cities of the world? Measuring distances across the planet can be tricky business. Earth, of course, is a three-dimensional object, a not-quite-so-perfect sphere. Geographers […]
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