Not all maps chart the Earth’s surface — and the David Rumsey Map Center’s newest exhibition in Green Library proves just that. The exhibit “Above & Below: Cartography Beyond Terrain” opened on Oct. 8 ...
If you want to claim a territory, it’s good to have a map to show what’s yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a ...
Critical cartography emerged as a challenge to conventional mapping practices by examining how maps reflect and reinforce power structures, ideological biases and social inequalities. It foregrounds ...
This course is the first in a cartography sequence that refines mapping as both a technique of inquiry and a legacy of landscape-making. The objective of Cartography I: Mapmaking is to explore ...
Cartography has evolved from manual engraving of geospatial features to a fully digital discipline that integrates surveying, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and computer graphics ...
Map making and Ireland : presences and absences / William J. Smyth -- Early Maps [colour illustrations] -- Mapping the sublime / William Laffan -- Some curious maps. A rococo idyll in County Kildare / ...