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http://www.economist.com/node/21542824 The image of the map of Greece and its islands as a fraying, crumbling cliff edge has become popular forobvious reasons sinnce 2007 - recent version in The Economist, URL above. This one also makes Italy and even Spain appear to crumble too. But was this image used before, perhaps in earlier economic crises? What other maps have been used as crumbling cliff edges? Turn the UK upside down and the N W of Scotland could be used this way, maybe the Canadian Arctic archipelago,or southern Chile. And cities if we map all the peri-urban areas at a fine enough resolution also have faryed edges, although cities can look more like high magnification photos of metastasising cancer cells. Dr Hillary Shaw School of Business, Management and Marketing Harper Adams University College Newport Shropshire TF10 8NB
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