In recent years, local activists have pushed to change the names of federal sites featuring the dehumanizing “s-word.”
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See What Your Neighborhood Looked Like Millions of Years Ago
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.
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How the Face of Rio de Janeiro Radically Changed Over Five Centuries
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
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”
“Peoples of the Pacific” is one of six murals that was displayed at the influential “Pageant of the Pacific” Golden Gate International Exposition.
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New Map Unearths New York’s Oldest and Rarest Trees
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
The graphite floor map can be understood as a post-apocalyptic landscape, a commentary on artistic labor, or a parable about COVID-era confinement.
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The Art World We Have Lost
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.