Week Fourteen (April 17) - Maps & The Politics of Cartography

Assignments for today

• Michael Heffernan, "The Politics of the Map in the Early Twentieth Century,"Cartography and Geographic Information Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2002, pp. 207-226. 
• Erick Lyle, "The Hunt's Donuts Story,"On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City (New York: Soft Skull Press, 2008), pp. 81-101.
• José Rasaba, "Allegories of Atlas," in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Chapter 63. 
• IN-CLASS PRESENTATION OF YOUR GROUP MAPS!  

For further reading/research on maps & mapping

• Cristina Grasseni, "Skilled landscapes: mapping practices of locality," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2004, Vol. 22, pp. 699-717. 
• Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, Chapter 1.  
• Gaza Map from You Are Not Here.
• New York Times, "In Italy, Creating Worlds Takes Precision, Yes, and Politics."