What do you think of this roadmap of American living? In my work, strategic roadmaps helped organizations transition and transform. This one is a current state map that contrasts the political and social status of the U.S.
There is a wide spectrum of visual representations, aka maps, now. We can go to visual complexity.com and find all kinds of projects. I looked for ones that might reveal things about U.S. politics but didn't see anything that general. What I did find was a diverse collection of visual representations. Every one of these pictures expands and shows the results of analysis through visual representation. You can read about the project and author HERE.
Here is the author's introduction:VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.
We found these two historic stone buildings in Delaware, near Mount Cuba.
Besides the larger retail malls, there seems to be larger house lots in the U.S. as well. I observe that there seems to be more quasi-rural living, where people seem to be in rural settings, and commute to the city for work. As we drive around the Philadelphia area, that is the impression one has.
I found an article by Moya K. Mason that looked at house sizes over the last few centuries. In the 1800s a large home ranged between 2200 and 2800 square feet. That's the size of suburban American and Australian homes today.
In terms of lot sizes, these seem to be shrinking since 1990 in the U.S. where the average size of a house is increasing and its lot is decreasing. Reports have the size between 12,870 square feet and 15,456 square feet or .35 acres.
There doesn't seem to be any information for Canada to make a comparison, so I guess my anecdotal experience will have to do for now.
Here are two scenes from a building on the grounds of the Hagley Library, in Wilmington, Delaware.
