Category Archives: Atlases of the Week

Luca Tenuto- Map of The Week

For much more than a century, Major League Baseball (MLB) has been an integral part of American sports culture. The league began in the 1860s with just eight clubs and has since expanded to become a flourishing national organization. This … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Redlining in Richmond

If one were to travel from Richmond’s West End or Westover Hills to Church Hill or Oak Grove on a sweltering summer day, the difference in temperature would be appreciable. Representing average summertime temperatures, areas colored in red and orange … Continue reading

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“The Rhetoric of Cartography: Unpacking the 1932 Japanese Stereotype Map”

In the early 1930s, as Japan’s imperial ambitions were on the rise, an exceptional satirical world map was introduced to the Japanese public. This unique piece offered a vivid visual commentary on the world as perceived through Japanese eyes, particularly … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: “Soviet Penetration in the Near East, Middle East and East Africa Through the Media of Hospitals and Medical Missions”

Whether it was espionage, space races, or the Red Scare, Americans have been fascinated, and at times terrified, by the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). While most of the understanding we have from the time of … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Mem-O-Map: Okinawa

Throughout the first six weeks of this course, The Rhetorical Lives of Maps, we have focused on how maps have much more meaning than just giving directions, and how they can tell a story. This was exemplified within the first … Continue reading

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Map of the Week: Alaska Size and Distance Comparison

  When viewing the Mercator Projection of the United States map, how often do we consider the relative sizes of the fifty states? This map presents a graphic illustration of the size of Alaska in comparison to the entire continental … Continue reading

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Atlas and Blog of the Week: Atlas of Economic Complexity

https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/For my atlas of the week, I chose this awesome atlas about economic complexity that was put together by Harvard’s Growth Lab. The atlas included 4 separate map articles that help visualize new economic growth opportunities around the world. My … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week: OpenStreetMaps

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/40.9683/-73.7046 My choice for atlas of the week is OpenStreetMap, an open-source, Wikipedia-styled map of the world of which anyone can contribute to anywhere. I chose this because it reflects all the novel integrations the internet has provided to the … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week: Urban Heat Islands in the U.S.

https://urichmond.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=4f6d72903c9741a6a6ee6349f5393572 My atlas choice is “Urban Heat Island Severity for U.S. cities.- 2019”. This map shows all of the urban heat islands in U.S. cities from 2019. In our course, we’ve talked a lot about counter-mapping but I think this … Continue reading

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Atlas of the Week: Middle Eastern Affairs

https://www.worldhistory.biz/download567/AnAtlasofMiddleEasternAffairs.pdf In the Atlas I chose for the blog curation assignment it has a series of maps of the region come to be known as the Middle East in the contemporary. This atlas first puts the Middle East into context … Continue reading

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