“Can you recognize it by its Starbucks locations?  Let’s find out. This quiz shows all of the Starbucks locations within the city boundaries of 20 domestic or foreign cities, and for each you must name the city depicted from four choices.”

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

This is my favorite place-based guessing game since GeoGuessr (displays 5 locations in GoogleMaps “StreetView” and you have to guess where the images are located).  This isn’t about knowing Starbucks locations, but urban economic patterns and real estate analysis (just as this article showing the locational logic where McDonald’s and Burger King will place stores also relies of understanding urban economic patterns).  In this Starbucks game you have to recognized the shape of the city, major street patterns and the economic patterns just to name a few.  This is one way to make the urban model more relevant.       

Tags: urban, models, economic, trivia.

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