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There has been so much talk about population growth and increasing urban density that it is refreshing to see that someone has made the effort to track the places that are literally devoid of human beings.
Designer Nik Freeman has created an intriguing map titled “Nobody Lives Here” that details the areas in the U.S. that have zero population, according to the 2010 U.S. census—astoundingly, 47% of the country has been shaded green on the map, indicating that these areas are unoccupied.
The United States is divided into 11,078,300 Census blocks, of which 4,871,270 are uninhabited—considering that only a single inhabitant is required to mark a block as occupied, this number seems incredibly large.
While many of these places with no population are geographically challenging for human settlement or legally prohibited from being occupied—such as state and national parks—others are uninhabited for less obvious reasons.
Find out more about this thought-provoking map on Freeman’s blog post about it.
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[via The Atlantic Cities]
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There has been so much talk about population growth and increasing urban density that it is refreshing to see that someone has made the effort to track the places that are literally devoid of human beings.
Designer Nik Freeman has created an intriguing map titled “Nobody Lives Here” that details the areas in the U.S. that have zero population, according to the 2010 U.S. census—astoundingly, 47% of the country has been shaded green on the map, indicating that these areas are unoccupied.
The United States is divided into 11,078,300 Census blocks, of which 4,871,270 are uninhabited—considering that only a single inhabitant is required to mark a block as occupied, this number seems incredibly large.
While many of these places with no population are geographically challenging for human settlement or legally prohibited from being occupied—such as state and national parks—others are uninhabited for less obvious reasons.
Find out more about this thought-provoking map on Freeman’s blog post about it.
Click on image to enlarge
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[via The Atlantic Cities]