Precedents & Project Examples
Living document of precedent projects....
General Critical GIS/Radical Cartography resources
- Companion documentary: This is not an Atlas: A Documentary on Counter-Cartographies
Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, "Counter Mapping" Emergence Magazine on Maps of the Zuni world.
Cartographic Projections + Mapping Existing Datasets
- Mörtenböck, Peter, and Helge Mooshammer, eds. Informal Market Worlds: The Architecture of Economic Pressure. Rotterdam: NAI010 Publishers, 2015.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation. "A Journey to the Top of the City of Los Angeles." in Landscape Futures, ed. Geoff Manaugh
Making Data from Archives
Shannon Mattern, "Terra Perdita: Mapping Lost Landscapes", Avery Review, 2022. See especially Mattern's discussion of the "Archive of Lost Mountains".
Marshall, Bob, Brian Jacbos and Al Shaw. "Losing Ground," ProPublica and The Lens. August 28, 2014
David Rumsey Map Collection. Large collection of scanned archival maps.
Price Fishback et al. "New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s". September 2021. Working paper. New research complicating the narrative on HOLC (aka "redlining") maps.. Uses data from University of Richmond.
Making Data From Observation & Sensing
Wood, Jeremy. Data Cloud. 2008/2009. Beatrixpark, Amsterdam. Site specific artwork.
- see also [conversation with Jeremy Wood by Tracey P. Lauriault: Lauriault, Tracey P., and Jeremy Wood. “GPS Tracings – Personal Cartographies.” Cartographic Journal 46, no. 4 (November 2009): 360–65. https://doi.org/10.1179/000870409X12549997389628.](http://rd8hp6du2b.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info%3Aofi%2Fenc%3AUTF-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fsummon.serialssolutions.com&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=GPS+Tracings+-+Personal+Cartographies&rft.jtitle=Cartographic+journal&rft.au=Lauriault%2C+Tracey+P&rft.au=Wood%2C+Jeremy&rft.date=2009-11-01&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.issn=0008-7041&rft.eissn=1743-2774&rft.volume=46&rft.issue=4&rft.spage=360&rft.epage=365&rft_id=info:doi/10.1179%2F000870409X12549997389628&rft.externalDocID=11703670)
Kim, Annette. “Mapping the Unmapped: Mixed Use Sidewalk Spaces,” Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Min City. University of Chicago Press, 2015 pp. 100-169. Book available to view online via CLIO
- See also online: https://slab.today/maps-2019/.
Troittin, Masson, Tallon. Usages: A subjective and Factual Analysis of Uses of Public Space. 2011
Svarre, Birgitte and Jan Gehl. How to Study Public Life. 2013. ebook via Columbia Library
Making Data from Satellites
Benson, Michael, "Watching the Earth Burn" The New York Times. December 28, 2020
Wallace, Tim, Derek Watkins, and John Schwartz. “A Map of Every Building in America.” 2018
- Brief technical documentation: Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints. 2018. Microsoft, 2020.
Badger, Emily and Quoctrung Bui, "A Decade of Urban Transformation, Seen From Above" Dec. 27, 2019
Begley, Josh, “Officer Involved.” The Intercept. December 30 2017.
Begley, Josh, “Best of Luck with the Wall.” Field of Vision. 2016
Cooper, Danika, “Invisible Desert.” E-Flux Architecture. February 5, 2020
Paglen, Trevor. Blank spots on the map: the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world. London: Penguin, 2009. [Preview available online here]
Folder. "Uncharted – Footnotes to the Atlas." Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016
Maps & Narrative
Wood, Dennis. "Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas." In Places Journal. 2011.(Columbia Library holding)
Solnit, Rebecca and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. California: University of California Press, 2016.
Mogel, Lize, and Alexis Bhagat, eds. An Atlas of Radical Cartography. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press, 2008. (Columbia Library holding and website with book excerpts here)
Forensic Architecture's Investigations. Many projects, lots of different examples on maps and/as investigations/narratives.
New York Times Graphics Department map-forward stories:
See 2020: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics for a compiled list of visual stories from 2020. Not all of these are map based, but many are. At the bottom of the page are links to similar compilations going back to 2012.
Wallace, Tim. 2016. “The Two Americas of 2016.” The New York Times, November 16, 2016.