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The Atlas Issue
Soft power, rival cities, export identity — culture on a map.
GEOPOLITICS: Film and Music Lead Cultural Exports; Korea Rose 70 Points Since 1990
Film scores 91 on exportability, music 88. South Korea's cultural wave index climbed from 22 in 1990 to 92 in 2025 across eight mediums and 45 cities. EXPORTERS: Platforms, Factories, and Machines
The U.S., China, and Germany dominate trade through different architectures — platform control, manufacturing scale, and industrial precision. ATLAS: What Does Your Country Sell?
Export ledgers reveal national identity under market constraint—200+ countries, 5,000+ products, six diagnostic questions. METROS: New York Capital, San Francisco Invention
New York legitimizes and commands global systems; San Francisco prototypes them. Both export intangible power, not goods. RIVALRY: California vs. Texas on Seven Economic Dimensions
California scores 96 on GDP, 94 on tech; Texas scores 96 on energy, 91 on migration attention. Seven dimensions explain why the comparison persists. BIOECONOMICS: A Data Framework for Economic Identity
1,667 subnational regions and 1,100+ datasets define the economic signature of cities — exports, housing, transit, culture, and historical infrastructure. PARKS: Golden Gate Draws 94× the Median National Park Visit
Golden Gate National Recreation Area recorded 14.6 million visits in the dataset's peak year — 94 times the system median of 155,219 across 21,560 park-year records from 1904–2016. SF: Can It Absorb Its Own Invention Machine?
A small city exports global software wealth while underbuilding the physical infrastructure to metabolize it.