Ebola, Disease Outbreaks, and Inadequate Health Systems
I vividly remember the Kagadi Hospital run by the Ministry of Health. In 2002, I was visiting the communities that would benefit from an ambulance fundraiser project. That evening the need for emergency transportation in the Kagadi-Nakuulabye area of the Kibaale District could not have been made more clear to me. Driving back to our … Read more
Map of the Week: Global Transportation System
This is an incredible compilation of global infrastructure data visualized from Globaia: A Cartography of the Anthropocene. Check out their other maps representing energy infrastructure, flights, railways, and more. “By locating the structures and hotspots of human activity, by acknowledging the extent of our footprints and our facilities, perhaps we will glimpse the limits of … Read more
Detroit’s Per Square Mile: Inequality from Space
Firstly, this was not my idea, but I wanted to test it out in Detroit. Tim De Chant posted on Per Square Mile that inequality can be visualized from space via satellite images on Google Maps/Earth. He previously wrote about the concept that the lack of urban trees represented the absence of wealth in certain … Read more
