Resources

Doug Beube, Fault lines, 2003

Course readings:

Chapter 8 of Paul Auster’s City of Glass as as slide show and PDF:

City of glass chapter 8

City of Glass chapter 8

Other texts:

Charles Baudelaire’s ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863): http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/pm/baudelaire-painter.htm

‘Thinking About Maps’ by Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins and Martin Dodge

‘Ce n’est pas le monde (This is not the World)’ by John Krygier and Denis Wood

Links to map blogs:

Graphic literature:  

http://www.francescofranchi.com/graphic-literature

Joel Katz: Maps of Rome and London

Strange Maps: http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps

Analysis

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Susan Stockwell, London Subway 2007

Map making sites and software:

Creating Thematic Maps in Google Earth:
http://www.sodbtn.sk/kml/obcesr2/eng/index.html

Polymaps: http://polymaps.org/

VUE mind-mapping tool:The Visual Understanding Environment
Xmind mind-mapping tool:XMind

Hans Rosling’s statistical mappings: http://www.gapminder.org/world/