Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro’s book Nonstop Metropolis charts the overlooked geographic history of New York City.
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CIA Declassifies Maps from 75 Years of Surveillance
To mark the 75th anniversary of its Cartography Center, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) shares decades of declassified maps.
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Chimney Rags Revealed to Be a Rare 17th-Century Map
The National Library of Scotland received a bundle found in a chimney, and six months of conservation revealed the rags to be a rare 17th-century map.
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Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps
The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.
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100 Years of Artists’ Maps of New York City
Artists and designers through the age have imposed their visions of the present and future on an always-changing New York.
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A Guide to Urban Havens in NYC, from a Quaker Meeting House to a Bird-Watching Refuge
The National Park Service and the Cultural Landscape Foundation launch a guide to New York City’s cultural landscapes as part of a series on urban design.
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An Incredible Map Collection Gets Its First Physical Home
Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography.
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Maps Made to Influence and Deceive
Some maps are not designed to chart geography, but to express a particular belief.
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Discover NYC’s Over 1,000 Public Artworks with a New Interactive Map
New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map
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Mapping the Fossils and Meteorite Impacts in London’s Architecture
The building blocks of urban landscapes are often riddled with fossils, with Jurassic reptile bones and Cretaceous sea creatures sometimes emerging from the stone surfaces.
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Charting Chinese History with 17th-Century Jesuit World Maps
Mounted on remnants of the old Ming Dynasty city wall, which once surrounded Beijing, are Western clocks and astronomical instruments for observing celestial bodies.
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A Collection of Creative Cartographers’ Madcap Maps
Originally intended purely as tools for navigation, maps have long branched off from this practical function to become an unexpected medium for visual expression.
