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See What Your Neighborhood Looked Like Millions of Years Ago

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

A new online tool allows users to scroll through geologic time, using their own location as a pinpoint to orient themselves in the shifting land masses.

Posted inArt

How the Face of Rio de Janeiro Radically Changed Over Five Centuries

by Lauren Moya Ford January 3, 2022January 3, 2022

A new digital atlas, imagineRio, reveals how the city’s urban evolution has unfolded from its 16th century roots to the present day.

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Scientists Create the First Complete Map of the World’s Coral Reefs

by Valentina Di Liscia September 14, 2021September 14, 2021

The project utilized 2.25 million satellite images of shallow coral reefs around the globe.

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How a Map Fueled Perceptions of Asians as an Exoticized “Other”

by Connie Chin May 31, 2021August 4, 2021

“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.

Posted inBooks

New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees

by Lauren Moya Ford March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Part botanical history, part social history, Allison C. Meier’s map provides a welcome alternative route through New York’s urban jungle.

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Mira Dayal Maps a Gallery Floor

by Louis Bury March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.

Posted inArt

The Art World We Have Lost

by David Carrier August 1, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Lydia Pyne August 14, 2019August 30, 2019

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.

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Mapping Chicago’s Concrete and Brutalist Buildings

by Claire Voon April 24, 2018April 23, 2018

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. 

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Explore Over 30,000 NYC Historic Sites Newly Uploaded to the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Map

by Claire Voon January 30, 2018August 3, 2021

Complied from 50 years of documents, the map allows you to discover facts about structures you may walk by every day.

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How Trompe-L’Oeil Added Information and Ornamentation to Maps

by Allison Meier November 27, 2017November 29, 2017

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.

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Generate Medieval City Maps with This Online Tool

by Allison Meier November 22, 2017August 3, 2021

The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.

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