A new chart created by the team at CNNMoney can measure the personal bubbles of residents of famous cities, from Tokyo to Manila to Berlin. Simply by scrolling over the name of a city, this interactive chart will tell users how many square feet they would have to themselves if they visited that city.
Some of the chart's results are pretty shocking. Paris, for instance, has less square feet available per person than the infamously crowded New York City. In fact, New York has more personal space for its residents than Manila and Tokyo combined.
With this chart, it's easy to get an idea of which cities are overpopulated and which offer a ton of freedom to move about. A city like Mumbai, which has only 470 square feet per person, might deter crowd-wary people from visiting. St. Petersburg, on the other hand, is perfect for people looking for a lot of time to themselves with 3,090 square feet per person.
This interactive chart is wonderfully innovative. It not only provides some neat tidbits of information about iconic cities, but also provides information regarding these cities' economies and ways of life.
Personal Bubble-Measuring Charts
This Interactive Chart from CNNMoney Measures Your Personal Space
Trend Themes
1. Personal-space Awareness - The trend in interactive charts measuring personal space can be applied to wearable technology to create personal space trackers.
2. Urban Planning Optimization - The trend in measuring personal space per city can be applied to urban planning to optimize city planning, reduce over-crowding and increase personal space.
3. Smart Tourism - The trend in using interactive charts measuring personal space per city will change the way the tourism industry advertise and market travel by including personal space as an attraction.
Industry Implications
1. Technology - The technology industry can benefit from creating wearable personal space trackers using the trending method of measuring personal space.
2. Urban Planning - The trend in measuring personal space per city can be applied to the urban planning industry to optimize city planning, reduce over-crowding and increase personal space.
3. Tourism - The tourism industry can incorporate the innovative trend in using interactive charts measuring personal space per city to advertise and market travel by including personal space as an attraction.