Tag: deserted medieval villages

• Ghost towns of the world: where places were abandoned, and why

  

  I mapped 5,448 abandoned settlements in open data and coloured each by why it emptied: mining, war, disaster, reservoirs, Chernobyl and medieval decline. 80% of Wikidata’s ghost towns are American, and only 5% say why.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  abandoned places, Chernobyl, data visualisation, deserted medieval villages, ghost towns, history, maps, Wikidata