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Outside The Frame: Mapping And Urban Space In The United States, C. 1920-2014, Grace Avery Diliberto
Outside The Frame: Mapping And Urban Space In The United States, C. 1920-2014, Grace Avery Diliberto
Senior Projects Spring 2015
In this thesis, I will focus on the way in which maps have developed and been used in or by the United States, specifically government and academic institutions, in the past century to create, control, and shape urban space. I will make use of formal analysis and historical context to examine three case studies in which “conventional” maps, meaning institutional (namely, government and academic) cartography, have been used, and, it will be argued, misused, to selectively include and exclude information and collectively shape our environment. Additionally, this thesis will follow chronologically alongside the simultaneous development and refinement of mapping technologies, …