Mapping Hacks

by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh

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Maps are/can be political

June 27th, 2005 by Rich

Before and
after in Zimbabwe
. Go ahead, click the link.

200,000 people used to live in the area shown in this picture. Now they
don’t. Shanty towns are being razed. People are running ahead of bulldozers
trying to pry bits of material off of their shacks so they have some material
to use to build again, somewhere.

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