Night Map

An urban planner named Jakob Schmid made an interactive map of Berlin’s nightlife, showing where the bars and clubs cluster, where people actually spend their nights and money. Mitte, Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain light up in all the right places. It’s a clean visualization, and there’s something different about seeing it all mapped out at once versus just knowing it from going out.

What I like about it is the honesty. No mystique, no narrative about discovery—just here’s where the clubs are, here’s where the money goes. Once you see a neighborhood that way, mapped out like that, it changes how you think about it.

I check it sometimes.