Loren Munk’s “SOHO Map” offers a visual record of a densely peopled art world.
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Mapping Non-European Visions of the World
Maps drawn by Indigenous artists at the behest of the Spanish in the 16th century illustrate the amalgamation of visual traditions during the early years of contact between Indigenous groups and colonizers.
Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings
For a new map published by Blue Crow Media, Chicago-based architect Iker Gil has selected over 50 examples of concrete and Brutalist buildings across the city and its suburbs to highlight.
Explore Over 30,000 NYC Historic Sites Newly Uploaded to the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Map
Complied from 50 years of documents, the map allows you to discover facts about structures you may walk by every day.
How Trompe-L’Oeil Added Information and Ornamentation to Maps
Look But Don’t Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps at the Harvard Map Collection explores how cartographers have used trompe l’oeil illustrations on maps.
Generate Medieval City Maps with This Online Tool
The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.
Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World
Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.
18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida’s coral reefs.
An Atlas Maps the End of the Earth
The Atlas for the End of the World maps the end of Earth as a biodiverse resource for human exploitation.
A New Website Tells the Stories of Over 4,000 Lynchings in the United States
The Equal Justice Initiative, with the support of Google, launched an online interactive that visualizes lynchings from the Civil War to World War II in 20 American states.
Using Google Street View Data to Track Urban Trees
MIT’s project Treepedia maps the protective green canopy of trees in cities around the world, and the places where this nature is missing.
The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.