A COUNTRY, IN COORDINATES
Find your
point of view.
Fifty cities. Millions of stories.
Trace the shape of urban America
through its original historical sample.
50CITIES
ONE CONNECTED LANDSCAPE
ONE CONNECTED LANDSCAPE
Explore the atlas
CONTIGUOUS U.S. + INSETSALBERS USA / POPULATION STUDY
Connecting the dots…
Circle area = population
AK + HI shown as insetsCITY 01 / 50
New York
RECORDED POPULATION8,491,079HISTORICAL SAMPLE · NOT LIVE DATA
THE FIELD NOTES / 001
A new lens.
The same data.
This visualization began as a D3 coursework exercise in 2018: a US map, state labels, and circles sized by city population. This edition preserves those elements and adds a searchable city index, rank filters, and keyboard-friendly exploration.
The original D3 by Example dataset is a historical sample, not current census data. Its values may mix reference years; this demo does not assert a single census year or a current ranking.