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Posted 01.17.13 | PERMALINK | ESSAY

Jill Desimini: Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary

Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America: According to Elevation above the Level of the Sea, 1854. Click image to enlarge. [Courtesy of Harvard Map Collection]

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Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary
On Places, landscape architect Jill Desimini explores a range of cartographic practices, from a medieval map of the British Isles to contemporary data visualization.
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