Mapping Society (UCL free book)
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth century … Continue reading
Monday, 24 September 2018 · Leave a comment
Critical Cartography
A critical cartography is the idea that maps – like other texts such as the written word, images or film – are not (and cannot be) value-free or neutral. Maps … Continue reading
Tuesday, 1 December 2015 · Leave a comment
Mapping for Environmental Justice: An Assessment of the Power of Maps in Karachi’s Informal Settlements
This paper adopts environmental justice as the broad normative framework. It departs from the premise that there is relevance in exploring tools that can be appropriated by communities, at the … Continue reading
Wednesday, 29 July 2015 · Leave a comment
Reading Development 