Mapping the University of Chicago’s 135-Year
Expansion into Hyde Park and Beyond
Drawing from University archives, campus maps, academic
literature, and news clippings, the
Maroon charted the University’s contentious
property acquisitions from its charter in 1890 to the
present.
10 Comments
Eldar_
Map doesn’t work?
tagersenim
What a beautiful webpage! I especially like all the quotes that go with the different expansion phases.
welfare
What an amazing way of showcasing development, each with excerpts and notes highlighting expansion decisions.
Are there other examples of this?
Amazing!
Aeolun
This must be the first time I’ve seen the scrolling story thing actually work. Great job!
ananmays
This is incredible scrollytelling map work, especially for a student newspaper, I'm pretty amazed.
Great job using MapLibre too, glad it is getting more and more popular.
For others in the thread wondering about other examples of this kind of journalism/mapping/data work, to my knowledge the best term for it would be 'scrollytelling' or 'storymapping' (which is an ESRI term but is used generally as well).
There are a ton of examples out there, but I'm sad there isn't a central repository of really great ones. The NYT and The Pudding are two places that do pretty cool stuff like this.
xnx
Good content. Scrolling is annoying. Would be nice to have j/k shortcut support to go to next/previous page of content.
jppope
does anyone know how they create the maps for this story? I've wanted to do a similar sort of map for a personal project and don't know how they do it. Especially the feature where you can click.
costcopizza
Thanks for this. I have an impending move to Chicago and really haven't connected with the place the 6 or so times I've been the last year.
Maybe some history will help.
madcaptenor
This is great. My only complaint is that I have literally never been to that part of Chicago, which obviously isn't their fault. I would be fascinated to see this for the urban universities I'm personally familiar with.
dustincoates
Tangentially related, but still worth checking out: the book "Gang Leader for a Day" [0] touches on this topic of how the university interacts (or doesn't) with its poorer neighbors. Highly recommend the read.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day