I've been playing a lot of Skyrim  lately, and ruminating on Elder Scrolls lore, so if you pardon this nerding-out, I'd like to offe...

How many of us geography nerds have gotten annoyed that Google Streetview doesn't cover China? Whelp, here's the fix: http://map.q...

One of the blogs I follow is " Stroad to Boulevard ", run by a Vancouverite. It documents how the difference between what Strong T...

Former Chamounix Drive crossing of the run at the bottom of Chamounix Valley. Tucked away deep inside Fairmount Park, on the west bank o...

PLVI stands for P eak L and V alue I ntersection--that is, where, in the city, the rents are costliest. It is, for all intents and purpose...

Just because I haven't been posting doesn't mean I haven't been working on stuff! Here are some projects I'm hoping to publi...

This is an outrage . So a legally-mandated bridge crossing that has been in the works for three years and was designed with a lot of co...

I've had some ideas for blog posts for a while, but haven't been executing for the past couple of days. However, hopefully (maybe) l...

Check this out ! This map shows what's in a x -minute transit (walking?) radius of anywhere you plunk the point down. I've set it ...

Direct Link Philly's top Building Improvement District (BID) is now 20 years old! The CCD has been instrumental in making Center ...

 Here is an interesting find. There's a small collection of old buildings on North Broad, just north of Temple University, at York S...

First Steel, 1703 and 1705 Howard Can Postgreen do it again? Postgreen Home's 100k House at the corner of Susquehanna and Amber...

Do any of you remember the line from Ghostbusters "Never cross the beams"? Chekhov's Gun--at the end of the movie they had to...