A Map of Every Building in America (NY Times)

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Traces of Distant Culture

South of New Orleans This arrangement of buildings along a narrow spit of land on either side of a Louisiana bayou shows the imprint of the region’s history under France: “long lot” development, which stretched skinny holdings laterally away from important waterways. Geography shapes settlement, but culture does, as well.

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On our mindsNew York Timesthe new york times, maps, new orleans, tim wallace, derek watkins, john schwartz, a gathering of the tribes, Steve Cannon