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Three Cool Map Books: People's Atlas of Detroit, Data Feminism, and When Maps Become the World

Three Cool Map Books: People’s Atlas of Detroit, Data Feminism, and When Maps Become the World

Three terrific new books on maps and mapping… Review by Denis Wood Linda Campbell, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallman, eds., A People’s Atlas of Detroit (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2020). Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. Data Feminism (MIT Press, Cambridge, 2020). Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther. When Maps Become the World (Chicago University Press, Chicago, 2020). I…

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Book Review: Matthew Edney: Cartography. The Ideal and Its History

Matthew H. Edney. Cartography. The Ideal and Its History. xiii + 309 pp., figs., bibl., index. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 9780226605685.

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Book Review by John Krygier published in Isis: A Journal of…

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Antonio Petrucelli's Maps (Edes Harrison & Artzybasheff)

Antonio Petrucelli’s Maps (Edes Harrison & Artzybasheff)

Antonio Petrucelli’s name is probably unfamiliar to map people, although it shouldn’t be. Petrucelli was one of the artists whose work was commonly found on the cover (and inside) Fortune magazine from the 1930s through the 1950s. Petrucelli collaborated with Richard Edes Harrison and was a contemporary of Boris Artzybasheff.Like Edes Harrison and Artzybasheff, Petrucelli had an interest in and…

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Denis Wood: Where? Nowhere

Review by Denis Wood of Katherine Marsh. Nowhere Boy (Roaring Brook, New York, 2018) Glenda Garelli, Federica Sossi & Martina Tazzioli. Spaces in Migration: Postcards of a Revolution (Pavement Books, London, 2013). James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti. Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics (Norton, New York, 2017)

Where? Nowhere

One of them doesn’t exist.

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Mid-century Modern Map Movie: Expanding World Relationships (1947)

In doing research for the post on Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps I came across mention of a movie – Expanding World Relationships – created by State Department Geographer S.W. Boggs. Boggs allegedly used Artzybasheff as a consultant. This old map movie also relates to Matt Wilson’s book New Lines, where he goes into maps, movement, and cinema.

Timothy Barney’s book Mapping the Cold War(2015), using…

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Matthew Wilson's New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map

Matthew Wilson’s New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map

Why don’t you get a copy of Matthew Wilson’s book New Lines (University of Minnesota Press, 2017). The paperback isn’t very expensive. Grab a pencil and take notes in the margins as you read. Skip stuff that does not seem that interesting. And write down ideas as you read.

I know some of the folks who follow this blog aren’t academics, and even if they are, they may not be into contemporary…

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Boris Artzybasheff's Maps

Boris Artzybasheff’s Maps

Back when Denis Wood and I were planning the 3rd edition of Making Maps, I stumbled upon a map of world tropical diseases Boris Artzybasheff created for Life Magazine (“World Map of the Major Tropical Diseases,” Life Magazine, May 1, 1944; high-resolution version at the David Rumsey Map Collection).

Boris Artzybasheff was born in 1899 in the Ukranian city of Kharkov. His father was author Mikhai…

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Book Review: Denis Wood reviews "The Power of Maps" - But not his "The Power of Maps"

Book Review: Denis Wood reviews “The Power of Maps” – But not his “The Power of Maps”

Denis Wood’s delightfully snarky review of a new book, The Power of Maps, but not The Power of Maps he wrote in 1992. The review provides a critique of participatory mapping and GIS from the perspective of critical cartography that has developed over the past several decades.

Review: The Power of Maps: Bringing the Third Dimension to the Negotiation Table

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Technical Centre…

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New Edition: Making Maps 3rd Edition!

And now… what at least a dozen of you have been waiting for…

Denis and I spent quite a bit of time rethinking significant parts of the second edition of Making Mapsin several intense work sessions in Columbus, Ohio and Raleigh, North Carolina. Fists were pounded upon tables, changes demanded, reservations expressed, ideas refined, markers used to blot out the unacceptable and sketches drawn…

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Found Maps & Etc. Junk 10

Electric Street Weather Map, Atlantic City, NJ (NJ Department of Agriculture), 1917

3D map (peg model) of the Coyote Hills oil field, California. (1910)

Image from page 15 of “American Fixture Company: Catalog 4” (1920)

Map of saloons, lower Druid Hill Avenue District, made by the Colored Law and Order League, Baltimore, Md” (1908)

Image from page 126 of “Light and lighting” (1908)

“Meats” from…

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Found Maps & Etc. Junk 9

Hazel Lee annotates the map of Russia. From “Advanced Geography.“ (1899)

Hole cut in the map. From “Advanced Geography.“ (1899)

Type borders: Torn, curled, damaged paper effect fonts. (1897)

Map: Township 40, Hamilton County, NY (1900)

“With monstrous head and sickening cry and ears like errant wings.” Image from page 49 of The Year’s at the Spring; An Anthology of Recent Poetry (1920)