How can maps fight racism and inequality? The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography ...

New York City has always attracted mapmakers. Its instantly recognizable street grid, intensely diverse populace, and iconic, ever-changing skyline have provided endless inspiration for cartographers ...

Prejudiced projection in cartography—and particularly in pictorial mapmaking—may go back as far as the Aztecs or the Europeans, who drew North America and Africa as tiny slivers on the mapamundi in ...

The golden age of pictorial mapping may have been between the 1920s and the 1940s, but occasionally contemporary artists resurrect the form with surprising results. Unlike the boilerplate colorful ...

A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping. Map-making isn’t always serious business. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, many U.S. artists embraced a form of ...

Covers Manhattan south of 96th St. Cover title. Unfolds to show lower Manhattan map raised 1 cm. above cover with numerous pictorial cut-outs of well-known buildings standing erect. Cut-out of World ...

If you want to see the world through a child’s eyes, ask her to draw a map. Or you could spend some time with this collection of maps from the International Cartographic Association’s (ICA) biennial ...