Everyone can relate to daily commutes. Whether it's fifteen minutes or an hour, infrastructures in various cities dictate how transportation affects our daily lives. Through the use of data visualization, Craig Taylor, Data Visualization Design Manager at ITO World uses color and form to portray commute distances in an artistically beautiful way.
A project that depicts city infrastructure in a whole new light, Taylor blends art, urban planning, and science together to create beautifully rendered images of street networks in 40 major cities. The project appropriately called, Coral Cities, showcases how far one can travel by car 30 minutes from the center of major cities across the globe. Growing from the inside out, the visual depiction of city infrastructures resembles the form of growing coral.
Depending on the geological features of the city, each "Coral City" is unique to its region. According to Taylor, the colorful hues do not have any technical purpose, they were used purely for added aesthetics. However, despite its supplementary purpose, when the maps are looked side by side the colors magnificently display the complex diversity of each city. As detailed as these visuals are, however, the maps only depict commute distances, not commute times or road congestion.
A project that took over 6 months to complete, Taylor's mesmerizing coral formations can create a new dialogue and approach to understanding urban density, transportation, and how architects and urban planners can build better cities.
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As far as I can tell you link to your own website's tags URLs four times, show images, and have a brief 40,000 ft. flyby of an article, but no links to find out anything more. No links to the author's work, no links to the research, nothing.
To Google we go, I guess.
Thank you for adding the new links, much appreciated.
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