Marie Patino

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From France to Taiwan, companies are experimenting in ways to recycle discarded solar panels and wind turbine blades.

In this week's MapLab, we look at what may be the most dataviz-oriented presidential ticket in history.

In April 2010, interdisciplinary artist Yu-Wen Wu woke up longing to visit her grandmother in Taipei. A quick search informed her that a plane ticket there from Boston – where Wu still lives – was out of her budget. On a whim, she opened Google Maps and searched for the best walking route to Taipei. She didn’t expect to get anything back.

It’s been two and a half years since artist and cartographer Anton Thomas started hand-drawing a 3-foot-wide world map, armed with colored pencils, a magnifying lamp and a lot of patience (2,100 hours’ worth of it so far). Titled Wild World, the piece represents detailed wildlife across the globe: Thomas has drawn 1,095 animals on the map so far, and aims to have some 2,000 by the time he finishes, which he estimates will be in about six months.

In 2010, the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), an organization of professional and hobbyist cartographers, published its first Atlas of Design, featuring beautifully crafted maps. Since then, NACIS has been publishing a new volume of the atlas every two years. A team of judges…

American politics are more polarized than ever, but one small part has remained relatively unscathed by partisanship.

To answer NIMBY critics, this social housing project by Jean-Christophe Quinton Architecte needed to be stylish enough to fit into the affluent 6th arrondissement.

In lower-income communities across the US, changes to the Paycheck Protection Program resulted in loans being issued to smaller businesses in great need of support.

A Brooklyn-based artist is harnessing the power of DALL-E to reimagine roadways to be more friendly to pedestrians and bikes.