Sometimes in a research lab you step back in awe at some of the research going on around you. The work from the team behind the new Simulacra blog from CASA is one of those moments, visualising the dynamic geography of the urban transport system:
Take a look at http://simulacra.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ for full details, including an amazing country wide version.
Great visualization. Reminds me of ‘Arteries of New York City’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10zIA4Cw9UI – low tech visualization from 1941 – but the facination seems to be the same.