The picture shows the number of fairs and markets per year, in 1732, in the Occitania region in the south of France (where I live). The small blobs denote three fairs per year, the biggest one, 13. I’ve decided to perceive the picture as a visualization of two things: street life intensity, and infrastructure for small-area food distribution. Please send me your nominations for social infrastructure graphic of the year (which we’ll show in Delhi).
Source: Pierre-Albert Clement. ‘Foires et Marches d’Occitanie.: de l’antiquite a l’an 2000’. Montpellier, Les Presses du Languedoc, 1999.
