Atlas of Design "Any city-dweller knows that most neighborhoods don’t have clear boundaries. Yet on maps, neighborhoods are almost always drawn as perfectly bounded areas with sharp edges—homogeneous zones of ethnicity or class." Matt Forrest & Kate Chanba "Bringing this local identity into the map without sacrificing its navigational functionality was our biggest challenge, but an important one: as simple as fonts and colors are, they can speak volumes about a city." Tanya M. "The spreads in this section depart from the detailed, scientific presentation used elsewhere in the atlas, and evoke instead a field notebook style, wherein the maps appear to be produced by a hand-drawn, loose, pen/ink, and/or watercolor medium." "Over the years I have developed a map aesthetic for the magazine that features soft, muted raster backgrounds upon which more important thematic vector data and textual information are positioned." Brian E. Bieke Cattoor & Bruno De Meulder Sarah Williams & Juan Francisco Saldarriaga
Writing about History Fair-Use Policy Primary Sources and Secondary Sources What is a Primary Source? A primary source is a document that was created at the time of the event or subject you've chosen to study or by people who were observers of or participants in that event or topic. If, for example, your topic is the experience of workers in the Chicago packinghouses during the first decades of the twentieth century, your primary sources might be: Chicago newspapers, c. 1900-1920, in a variety of languages. The medium of the primary source can be anything, including written texts, objects, buildings, films, paintings, cartoons, etc. Primary sources would not, however, include books written by historians about this topic, because books written by historians are called "secondary" sources. What are Secondary Sources? Once you have a topic in mind, you need to find out what other scholars have written about your topic. You want to move past just looking for books in the library. Let's take this one step at a time.
Sightsmap 11 LEGO Recreations Of The World’s Most Famous Photos The recreation of events have been achieved in many media formats from photographs to movies but in this post, Designussion showcases something a little different. The following images are recreations of some of the worlds most famous photos in LEGO. Enjoy. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 This famous photo, taken on 5 June 1989 by photographer Jeff Widener, depicts an unknown man halting the PLA’s advancing tanks near Tiananmen Square. Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932] Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by Charles C. Reichstag flag [1945] Soviet Union soldiers Raqymzhan Qoshqarbaev and Georgij Bulatov raising the flag on the roof of Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany in May, 1945. Afghan Girl [1984] The picture of Sharbat Gula, as it appeared on the June, 1985 National Geographic cover. Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941] This photograph was taken by Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer, when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa. U.S. Man On The Moon 1969
40 more maps that explain the world Maps seemed to be everywhere in 2013, a trend I like to think we encouraged along with August's 40 maps that explain the world. Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. You might consider this, then, a collection of maps meant to inspire your inner map nerd. I've searched far and wide for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not, with a careful eye for sourcing and detail. I've included a link for more information on just about every one. Enjoy. 1. Data source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, World Bank. Those dots represent people: the brighter the dot, the more people. 2. Click to enlarge. Human beings first left Africa about 60,000 years ago in a series of waves that peopled the globe. 3. (Wikimedia commons) The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. 4. Click to enlarge. This map shows the Spanish and Portuguese empires at their height. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/wwwvisualhistory.php The following is an annotated guide to some of the most useful visual resources available online. Gathered by scholars of American history and visual culture, each annotation describes the range and content of the website\'s visual resources and assesses its utility for teaching U.S. history. National Gallery of Art Teaching Resource: Exploring Themes in American Art Website Type: Archive Date Reviewed: Jan. 14, 2008 The National Gallery of Art’s website has produced a series of teaching resources that seek to illuminate the museum’s impressive collection by elaborating on the underlying historical context of each exhibited piece. American Beginnings: The European Presence in North America, 1492-1690 Date Reviewed: Jul. 1, 2008 This highly detailed site focuses attention on the earliest decades of European settlement in North America, using primary texts and illustrations as a means of engaging users’ understanding of a complex and often oversimplified historical interaction.
Quel est le sport le plus pratiqué dans votre commune ? À partir des données du ministère des Sports en 2011, le site Slate.fr a réalisé une carte du sport le plus pratiqué dans chaque commune, avec pour chaque ville : le nombre de licenciés et le pourcentage de la population que ça représente. Ainsi, on ne s'étonnera pas de voir que le marron, couleur qui symbolise le rugby sur la carte, est plus présent dans le Sud-Ouest, idem pour la couleur rouge qui représente le basket dans les Landes et des tâches grises pour la pelote basque dans le Pays... basque. Autre enseignement : malgré cette diversité, le football reste le sport numéro 1 dans le Sud-Ouest. Et dans les plus (et moins) grandes villes du Sud-Ouest, quel sport compte le plus grand nombre de licenciés ? Gironde : Bordeaux > tennis ; Arcachon, Lacanau > golf ; Libourne > football Dordogne : Périgueux, Bergerac > football Landes : Mont-de-Marsan, Dax > football Lot-et-Garonne : Agen, Villeneuve-sur-Lot > football Pyrénées-Atlantiques : Bayonne, Pau > football ; Biarritz > golf
Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter One Karl Marx. Capital Volume One Part I: Commodities and Money Chapter One: Commodities Contents Section 1 - The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value Section 2 - The twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities Section 3 - The Form of Value or Exchange-Value A. 1. a. 3. B. 1. C. 1. D. Section 4 - The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret thereof The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”[1] its unit being a single commodity. A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another. Every useful thing, as iron, paper, &c., may be looked at from the two points of view of quality and quantity. The utility of a thing makes it a use value.[4] But this utility is not a thing of air. Let us take two commodities, e.g., corn and iron. A simple geometrical illustration will make this clear.
Cartomundi La participation à l'annuaire de CartoMundi est ouverte à tous les établissements qui conservent, commercialisent ou produisent des documents cartographiques. Ses données sont publiques, elles sont accessibles en ligne à travers le portail des cartothèques. Cette participation est gratuite, les partenaires peuvent se retirer de l'annuaire à n’importe quel moment. 1. 2. 3. Au plaisir de vous compter bientôt parmi les membres de CartoMundi. Old Maps Online: Sites La carte, un truc de maniaques ? "The Love of Mapmaking". Titre original : A Map of Lovemaking. Seymour Chwast. 1980. The Pushpin Group. La carte est-elle un objet complexe, un outil réservé aux spécialistes? Il y a quelques semaines, j’étais interviewé par Olivier Razemon qui rédigeait un article pour Le Monde, paru dans dans l’édition du 04.11.09 et intitulé "Quand les internautes jouent aux cartographes". Les remarques de vive voix ou les allusions à cet article comme celle du blog Serial Mapper, m’ont montré que cette formule lapidaire et provocatrice – la carte un outil pour maniaques – ne rendait pas bien compte d’un vrai et ancien problème : quels sont la place, le rôle ou le statut de la carte et des cartographes dans l’univers de l’information géographique numérique ? Selon Olivier Razemon, la carte deviendrait un outil tout public, un objet de consommation courante, produit et utilisé par le plus grand nombre. Les cartes se multiplient-elles sur le Net ? Difficile d’aller contre cette évidence. Pourquoi ?