AP Summer Institute -- PCL Map Collection

Analyze the cultural, economic and environmental factors at work in a map selected from the list below, or the map you have researched at PCL. Using the Monmonier, Tufte and Wood texts as a guide, include a close reading of the generalizations, assumptions, cartographic "lies" and graphic devices used to make the map a powerful rhetorical device. As. part of your discussion make connections to at least two other maps or mappings, that, in your opinion share formal or conceptual qualities with your map.

Present your draft paper to the class on October 12 (or 14) as a 5 minute slide lecture. (In Powerpoint, PDF or Keynote)

Be energetic and imaginative in your research, and rigorous in the development of your argument.

• London Underground Map, Harry Beck et al, 1902-2010
  
• Cholera map of Broad St, Dr. John Snow 1854
• London A-Z, Phyllis Pearsall, 1935-present Manhattan, Hermann Bollman, 1948
• Btselem Map of West Bank &  Gaza, Eyal Weizman, 2002
  
• Map of Napoleon's 1812 March, Charles Joseph Minard 1861
• Discours sur les passions de l'amour, Guy Debord 1957
• Peters Projection, Arno Peters, 1974
  
  

Visit the PCL Map Collection (Map Room) and locate 3 different types of map of the same area.  Answer the following questions about each map:

1.      What type of map is it?

2.      What is the title?

3.      When was it made?

4.      Who made it?

5.      What is the scale?

6.      How is different than the other two maps?