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Posted by on Jun 28th, 2006 | 0 comments

Silent London

Silent London
Simon Elvins has some nice work but one stands out as some kind of cross between the 1748 Map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli and Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour & Denise Scott Brown in 1977. The Silent London etching maps noise levels throughout London in an attempt to reveal the quiet and hidden pockets of the city so as to make them a destination, possibly diffusing the noise...
Posted by on Mar 16th, 2006 | 0 comments

Literary Cartographies

Amy Lavender Harris has posted up a piece over at Reading Toronto regarding literary cartographies with respect to Toronto and touches on some interesting ideas. It is definitely worth a read. Thank you Amy.
Posted by on Nov 12th, 2005 | 0 comments

Radical Cartography

If you ask him what it is about he will feed you some gratuitous quotation of Baudrillard’s but pretence aside, Bill has some geocontextual information visualization projects that are worth checking out. Unfortunately he is focused pretty tightly on the United States of America but if you can forgive the narrow geopolitical scope then you’re in for a cartographic...
Posted by on Nov 8th, 2005 | 0 comments

Who’s Who in Underground Railway Maps

If you have an underground railway (not the slave-liberation kind necessarily) and want to map it out with class there are a few precidents you ought to be aware of. There are also several people who might be able to help you out as the underground railroad cartography community is not as big as one might initially imagine. Fortunately for you, Peter B. Lloyd has made some relevant information available to...
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