Design
A Gorgeous Map of San Francisco's Independent Coffee Shops
How "walkable coffee shops" might foster a better sense of community.
If every independent coffee shop in San Francisco had a gang color and territory, what would you get?
To start, one of the most effete turf wars in history, with skinny bearded guys trying to kneecap each other without spilling their macchiato. But also this splendid, rainbow-colored cartography of coffee shops and the neighborhoods they serve, created by the data-viz magicians inside MIT's Social Computing Group.