lecturer in digital media and culture at the University of Manchester, UK.
“A series of key public planning documents and maps relating to the city of Manchester and its regional context have been digitised and made freely available for the first time. These eight historic Plans span the central decades of the twentieth century with the first published in 1926 and the last in 1967.”
Martin Dodge and Joe Blakey have digitized a variety of plans and maps that have shaped the city of Manchester. They are available to view here.
The new fall issue of Cartographica is now available online. In the review section:
Chris Perkins tackles a new title on graphic design maps, A Map of the World According to Illustrators and Storytellers.
Richard Hornsey details another tube map book, Mind the Map. His ‘Listening to the Tube Map’ article for Environment and Planning D is well worth a read. Available (open access) here.
I take on Jason Farman’s exhaustive Mobile Interface Theory.
Clancy Wilmott delves into the fantastic Cities Without Ground (which I also talked about here).
And, Gwilym Eades critiques Mapping Europe’s Borderlands.
You can find my review on the About page.
More on Julian Oliver’s delightful Border Bumping project in video form below. It returns for a second time at Abandon Normal Devices this October:
It has recently been brought to my attention that a documentary of the life and work of the irrepressible Denis Wood is in production. Details are on the short side, but Diane Hodson, one of the co-directors, assured me that there should be some taster clips online soon.
A facebook page has now gone up for those wanting regular updates on the documentary. I look forward to its completion. Ira Glass’ introduction to Everything Sings (Siglio) is available to read over at the Huffington Post.
Sam Hind 