#historic maps

[gentlyepigrams]

Map ofthe World, and Christ holding a globe containing the names of the principal kingdoms and cities of Asia, Europe, and Africa BL Add MS 28681; 1262-1300; 'The Map Psalter'; England; ff.9r-9v

[septembergold]

'The River' by C.F.A.Voysey

[psychologeek]

Random questions Google can't help me with:

(even if you don't know, reblog could help a LOT in getting to "the person who knows". So thank you 😊)

1. Islam - How likely it is that Jason use the Hijra (hijaric?) Calander during his time with the LoA🤔

2. Geo-history: spoken languages in Western Asia around 1,300-1,500? Doesn't have to be spesific by years, just sort of. I try to get the possible location, language, religious and calander for some things.

3. what language do the All-caste speak?

Current thoughts:

LoA!

Probably somewhere in the Zagros Mountains? Maybe in the Iranian part. They do speak Arabic, but also Urdo, parasian and pashto. The main Dialect is Arabic, bc it's Ras Al-Ghul og language and that's how he taught his students.

(Also - mybe related to religious? Muslim probably (DoB ~1,300). And iirc being able to read the Qur'an properly has important meaning? I AM NOT MUSLIM PLZ CORRECT ME).

It has a lot of hiding places, wondering tribes, and places to grow food. Going to missions can hide as wonderers.

All-caste!

In the Himalayas, but "Himalayas" is f* HUGE.

WHERE??? Bhutan? China? India? Nepal? Pakistan?

[crazyfox-archives]

Two details from “An Illustrated Guide to Mount Kōya” (高野山案内図), a woodblock print map published during the Edo Period (1600-1868), the top detail showing the Oku no In area (奥の院) with its vast cemetery and the bottom one the central Danjōgaran area (壇上伽藍) with the Great Pagoda (根本大塔) and other key buildings

Images from the extensively illustrated site of the New Historic Map Society of Japan (新日本古地図学会), posted July 14, 2013 (see source)

[thechildrensmuseum]

The Panama Canal opened to traffic on this day in 1915. This map of the Panama Canal was published by Central Novelty Company in 1911, four years before the canal’s completion. The map includes “Canal Facts”, one of which is the projected opening date of January 1st, 1915. Apparently they were a few months behind!

[these-summer-nights-in-december]

Endless Mountains. Christopher Citro

[historybizarre]

Early American Elections offers a window into the formative era of American politics by producing interactive maps and visualizations of Congressional and state legislative elections from 1787 to 1825.

The framers of the federal Constitution had not anticipated the development of permanent political parties. Parties were considered “factions,” dangerous and illegitimate alliances that pursued their own self-interest at the expense of the common good. National leaders were expected to serve the interests of the entire nation, not to cater to any particular regional, class, or state interests.

This ideal of governance was first challenged during the debate over the ratification of the Constitution. Opponents of the Constitution, called “Anti-Federalists,” challenged supporters of the Constitution, called “Federalists,” for votes. Despite the intensity of the conflict, these coalitions were transient and disappeared soon after the new government went into operation.

During the first years of the new republic’s existence, two distinct and mutually antagonistic coalitions quickly emerged, coalescing into the first nascent political parties. Historians have come to call these two groups the “Federalists” and the “Democratic-Republicans.”

[ID: comparative maps of the 1806 and 1815 congressional elections which show the number of districts going for the Federalist party increasing in 1815. /ID]

[maxeastwoodphoto]

Site Analysis

Whilst the history of the site was touched upon previously, my site analysis also looked at how the street patterns on and around the site changed over time. Placing the old street layouts onto the current site helps to emphasise how the permeability of the Broad Marsh area of Nottingham has been lost.

Exploring this in section helped to demonstrate how High Pavement on the top of the cliff has undergone very little change over the last 140 years, whilst there has been constant upheaval and change beneath the cliff, and on the site itself.

The materiality around the site gives clues to the history of the site. Large swatches of structural brickwork in an English Bond eschew permanence, whilst more decorative brickwork brings delight. The quality of the paving shows the decline in the quality of the public realm as a whole. Mapping also demonstrates the need for a new public space in Nottingham.

The tram bridge poses a significant challenge on the site. I have chosen to combat this by using my building to envelope it - creating a new datum on the site at tram level. This provides a new pedestrian route connecting the city to the station. This also provides the opportunity to create a new public space for everyone at the new level between the top and the bottom of the cliff. 

My architecture will pick up on the language of the monolithic cliff and the brick buildings stacked upon it.