{"id":3031,"date":"2007-10-01T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2007-10-01T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T10:05:58","slug":"the_need_for_ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3031","title":{"rendered":"The Need for New Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreignerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/picture-74.png\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignerd.com\/2007\/09\/22\/the-need-for-new-maps\/\">Foreignerd<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If it were not for Rand McNally, I wouldn\u2019t know I was in Europe, separated by an ocean from my family and friends. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the urban culture of Berlin is closer to the culture of New York City than it is to, say, the German hinterland, to say nothing of the American hinterland. It is only through a certain way of looking at the world \u2014 from the privileged view of the orbiting satellite, in this case \u2014 that it appears the way it does. Our traditional maps, from the rough sketches of the Middle Ages to the latest map\/satellite hybrids of Google, place geographic proximity above all other considerations in terms of importance.<br \/>\nBut what about cultural proximity? Lifestyle proximity? \u201cEnergetic\u201d proximity? What about the fact that I can take a direct flight (more or less) to any world capital, but to get to a mid-sized city in the States, I have to take two or three? It costs more money and takes more time to get from Denver to Upstate New York than it does from Denver to Amsterdam, Paris, or Milan \u2014 wouldn\u2019t that make Denver CLOSER to the European capitals than it is to small cities in its own nation? That is my contention.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.foreignerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/picture-74.png\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignerd.com\/2007\/09\/22\/the-need-for-new-maps\/\">Foreignerd<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If it were not for Rand McNally, I wouldn\u2019t know I was in Europe, separated by an ocean from my family and friends. As far as I\u2019m concerned, the urban culture of Berlin is closer to the culture of New York City than it is to, say, the German hinterland, to say nothing of the American hinterland. It is only through a certain way of looking at the world \u2014 from the privileged view of the orbiting satellite, in this case \u2014 that it appears the way it does. Our traditional maps, from the rough sketches of the Middle Ages to the latest map\/satellite hybrids of Google, place geographic proximity above all other considerations in terms of importance.<br \/>\nBut what about cultural proximity? Lifestyle proximity? \u201cEnergetic\u201d proximity? What about the fact that I can take a direct flight (more or less) to any world capital, but to get to a mid-sized city in the States, I have to take two or three? It costs more money and takes more time to get from Denver to Upstate New York than it does from Denver to Amsterdam, Paris, or Milan \u2014 wouldn\u2019t that make Denver CLOSER to the European capitals than it is to small cities in its own nation? That is my contention.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,41,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}