Population Mountains

This is a story about how to perceive the population of cities.

Matt Daniels has created a way of showing where each dot on the map represents 1,000,000 square meters and the areas with the most people show as deeper shades of red. Then he shows another way to look at population, by growing each dot into a 3D block appearing as Population Mountains.

Check it out: pudding.cool/2018/12/3d-cities-story/