A 1908 map of the pneumatic telegram service, a 1950s proposed subway bomb shelter map and an interactive walking tour plan with attractions that existed in Manhattan 400 years ago (think forests and ...

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There’s nothing like sitting by the fire with a good book, except maybe sitting by the fire with a good map — or better yet, a good book about maps. I’ve noticed an upsurge in cartographic interest ...

Amsterdam, from ‘Civitates orbis terrarum’ (1576) by Georg Braun (all images courtesy Taschen) “Kindly and most esteemed reader, we hereby place on the market the next book of the most noble cities of ...

Join Dr. Henry Daniel, Distinguished Research Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, for the launch of his new book, Re-Choreographing Cortical & Cartographic ...

The first known map was a painting of a cityscape and an erupting volcano. Found on the wall of a baked-mud dwelling in the ancient Catal Huyuk settlement in present-day Turkey, it was drawn around ...

“Imagine going to a bookstore or the library to pick up a riveting read, and all they have is thousands of copies of ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” writes Frank Jacobs, speaking our language in the ...

More than 30 international contributors have produced a ground-breaking new book on tactile mapping for people with visual impairments.