LAB 1A

This map comes from a website called 'Who's Your City'

(www.WhosYourCity.com).

This map represents the distribution of where different types of personalities come from in relation to the United States.  I find this map very interesting due to the fact that it does, at least to me, explain why people from different areas are the way they are.  Just from personal experience I can understand some of my family.

This map comes from another blog called 'Strange Maps'

(Strange Maps Blog).

This map represents how cities are incorporating mass transit systems such as subways and metro systems into their city planning.  The map is designed to represent the modern subway maps in the world.  Each stop is a city that has or will have mass transit systems integrated into the city.  After traveling to Chicago this summer, I have fallen in love with how when planned properly, mass transit can save you time and money.  This map is also intriguing by how the world is represented and is now connected by globalization.  

This map comes from National Geographic (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/30805993.html).

This map represents how natural hazards can effect communities and their ability to respond to them from 1960 to 2010 by decade.  The red color represents a high vulnerability to hazards and the blue represents a low vulnerability.  I chose this map because I found the trend of natural hazards to shift from centralized regions to widely spread across the nation.  It is also interesting how there is large areas that are deemed unable to coop with hazards to small, individualized areas.