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Mapping the Turkmenistan-China Gas Pipeline
This map displays the route of the Turkmenistan-China Gas Pipeline and identifies some of the major nodes (capital cities and managerial hubs) along the length of the pipeline. The chart in the bottom left-hand corner shows the dominant environmental…
Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
The "Silk Road Economic Belt" and "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" is a new initiative by the Chinese Government to bolster trade across Asia, Europe and Africa. Whereas the "Maritime Silk Road" passes from Southern China through Western Asia, the…
USA Silk Road
Under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, the Chinese Government established the "Silk Road Fund" to "...expand strategic trust through more opening up and connectivity." The fund entails a US$40 billion commitment on the part of China to improve…
Movement of Emergency Management Agencies within the Governments of the Newly Independent States
This is a chart depicting the movement of devoted emergency management bureaus within the government structures of the former Soviet states during independence. The bars are colored by region. Transparency indicates the presence of a legal framework…
"Sketch of a Middle-European Highway Network"
Published in "Raumforschung und Raumordnung" - the monthly journal of the Reich's Society for Spatial Science, and the prestige venue for exhibiting the Reich's plans for the "East" - this sketch shows the proposed extension of the Reichsautobahn…
Reichsautobahn Construction Started
On 23 September 1933 the construction of the Reichsautobahn started south of Frankfurt. Hitler himself took a shovel to make the first dig. The planned pace was to construct around 800 miles of highways every year, for the overall projected length…
