About Project

From a simple experiment in parallax scrolling, this became an interactive piece with lots of animation and some data visualization. It brings together all the components of a digital interactive story — animations, data visualizations, text, and video — that I believe engage audiences better in the digital space.

Hope you enjoy it! You can drop me a note at chiloong@vslashr.com or visit V|R for more fun projects like data visualizations and content games.

Best viewed on a desktop webkit-based browser like Firefox or Chrome.

References and Data Sources:

• Data from United Nations Population Division
• Wikipedia: List of Urban Areas by population
• Demographia World Urban Areas: 2015
• UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs:World Urbanization Prospects: 2014
• Chai Jing's Under the Dome documentary. No, really, I am not affiliated with it.

Written with ScrollMagic (great library!), JQuery, D3, GreenSock, FontAwesome, Google Fonts.

You can trigger story animations whenever you drive the red sports car past a lamp post.

Sustainable urbanization and global warming are some of our biggest problems, and it's our duty as Earth's stewards to look after it.