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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 (University of Chicago [ ]
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. Matthew Edney @ USM Matthew Edney @ Mapping As Process Google Books Book Information University of Chicago Press Book Information Amazon Book Information Book Review by John Krygier [ ]
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, [ ]
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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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]
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 [ ]