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Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated]

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged , , , , , , , on June 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »

When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geographical Expedition, 1968) he and the map were advocating a way of thinking about what was happening to the black community in Detroit – and advocating for change.
All maps advocate.
To advocate means to “to speak or write in favor of; support or [...]

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A Map of Beerdom – New York, 11th Ward, 1885

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Map History, tagged , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

“In the morning they come out with queer-looking eyes…”
The above map represents one ward of New York City – the Eleventh.
The saloons as put upon this map were ascertained by the reporter of the Christian Union by actual count.
The saloons are largely beer saloons: for the base of the population is German, and a large [...]

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New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels

Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University of Chicago Press and many other sources. The lowest price I can find at this time is $29 (at Buy.com). Denis is, of course, co-author of the Making Maps book.
The book is big – almost a foot square [...]

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Mapping the Failure of the Iraq “Surge”

Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, tagged , , , , , on September 30, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Making maps to counter prevailing assumptions and beliefs is a well established tradition.  Counter mapping, radical mapping, protest mapping … the map proposes an alternative.  Bolstered by its authoritative aura, the map can be quite convincing.
Geographers John Agnew, Thomas Gillespie, and Jorge Gonzalez, with Political Scientist Brian Min (all of UCLA) propose an alternative to [...]

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