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This is Love

Beneath the City

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Evan Woodard explores the city of Baltimore from underneath. He searches for things buried underground—things that some people might consider trash. We decided to go to Baltimore and join him on a dig. Take our survey: vox.com/podsurvey Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. In the mid 1800s, mapmakers were sent all over New York City.

0:37.0

Their task was to document the entire city, with detail unlike any other maps of the time.

0:45.0

They labeled buildings with different colors, depending on what they are made of.

0:49.0

Pink for brick, blue for concrete, and all of green for fireproof construction.

0:57.6

They added symbols for things like skylights, vents, and elevators.

1:02.3

Some maps would tell you whether the streets were cobbled or not.

1:08.0

In the decades before this, two fires had destroyed large sections of the city.

1:13.0

More people wanted insurance than ever before,

1:16.0

and insurance companies realized

1:18.0

that it was too time consuming to send agents out

1:21.0

to inspect every single property.

1:23.0

So they decided these maps would be the answer.

1:27.0

Standardized, detailed maps of every corner of the city.

1:31.0

What a building was made of, how many exits it had, and what it was

1:35.8

used for.

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