This is neat!

How positively Duchampian of you.
This guy doesnt call it art, and doesnt consider himself an artist.

Makes pretty pictures, though.

And a Ferrari is a sculpture.

Intent, it would seem to me, is a component, often the ONLY component, of making art.
Which is, in this case, missing...

thanks for these. really fascinating. and more interesting than Rankin's, though those are great, too.

I like how you can trace the outline of Green Lake, and that it gets denser towards the north, where you can see the Space Needle and Rainier. You can practically follow the Fremont Parade Route. The lines in Lake Washington are much less random than I thought they would be.

None of the interesting urban spaces anywhere in the world have ever "actually had a comprehensive, implemented urban design". Urban design is something done by thousands of actors working independently over decades or centuries, most of them with cheap commercial motives. A comprehensive plan is a deadening plan.

Also, "New York's the only real rainbow" is false. There's only four colors on the maps, so not much of a rainbow to begin with. What you're seeing with New York is density, not rainbows; that's why the four colors are brighter and sharper there. Also, the brighter the color, the deeper the level of segregation, which creates sharp boundaries. New York is racially diverse, but in very discrete chunks; most of Manhattan, for example, is all white (i.e., red). Chicago is nearly as diverse as New York, and even more segregated. The diversity of color is just as broad in numerous other cities, like Los Angeles, Miami, SF Bay Area, just with a lower density and thus a lower intensity of color.

This is inspiring, there is definitely art here.

I hope you're feeling a lot better now!