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Reads tagged with “maps”

Creative Derivatives of the London Tube Map
Creative Derivatives of the London Tube Map

Nebulae, web mavens, and what the Kabbalah has to do with 100 years of music history.

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Experimental Cartography: The Map as Art
Experimental Cartography: The Map as Art

What tattoo art has to do with fashion, vintage atlases and Nazi concentration camps.

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Google Groupies Galore: Goollery
Google Groupies Galore: Goollery

What album covers have to do with shoe shopping and Renaissance paintings.

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ComplexCity: Visualizing the Hidden Patterns of Urbanity
ComplexCity: Visualizing the Hidden Patterns of Urbanity

Warholian city maps, or what a Parisian lover has to do with urban infrastructure.

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Strange Maps: The Book
Strange Maps: The Book

What George Orwell has to do with the Amazons of California and Utopia.

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Urban Storytelling: Hitotoki
Urban Storytelling: Hitotoki

The hidden whimsy of cities, or what Parisian gardens have to do with the Tokyo subway.

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Ordering The Chaos: The Internet Mapping Project
Ordering The Chaos: The Internet Mapping Project

Dissecting the interwebs, or what digital toddlers have to do with infinite loops.

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Geography, Topography, and Everythingography
Geography, Topography, and Everythingography

Google vs. Hitler, underwear peninsulas, Hansel and Gretel, global black holes, 18th century German lovescapes, how Holland’s streets are finally becoming rivers, why Philly is reinventing the wheel, and what Joan Miró has to do with NASA. We’re exorcising our maps obsession.

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