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- 1. Mapping the 19th-Century City ARTH 238 Art History, Experimental Humanities, and Environmental & Urban Studies
- 2. Why study the nineteenth-century city? What makes the nineteenth-century city important enough to devote an entire class to it? How can mapping help us to consider these questions?
- 4. CHICAGO NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA LONDON PARIS ALGIERS CAIRO ISTANBUL BOMBAY [MUMBAI] CALCUTTA [KOLKATA] HANOI SAIGON [HO CHI MINH]
- 5. CHICAGO NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA LONDON PARIS ALGIERS CAIRO ISTANBUL BOMBAY [MUMBAI] CALCUTTA [KOLKATA] HANOI SAIGON [HO CHI MINH] 185018251800 1875 19001785 1914 Timeline on Course Blog
- 6. Geradus Mercator’s world map (1569)
- 7. mappamundi (1300) Itinerary map (12th/13th c.)
- 8. Recovery of ancient Greek methods of cartography in the 15th century Martin Waldseemüller’s map of the world (1507) Latitude Longitude
- 9. Geradus Mercator’s world map (1569)
- 10. CHICAGO NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA LONDON PARIS ALGIERS CAIRO ISTANBUL BOMBAY [MUMBAI] CALCUTTA [KOLKATA] HANOI SAIGON [HO CHI MINH] 185018251800 1875 19001785 1914 Timeline on Course Blog
- 11. English population living in cities of more than 5,000 1700: 15 % 1830: 34% London’s Population 1700: 550,000 1830: 1,500,000 1851: 2,400,000
- 13. disease class ethnicity John Snow’s Cholera Map of London (1854) Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London (1886-1903) Hull House Maps and Papers — Nationality Map No. 1 of Chicago neighborhood (1895
- 15. disease class ethnicity John Snow’s Cholera Map of London (1854) Charles Booth’s Life and Labour of the People in London (1886-1903) Hull House Maps and Papers — Nationality Map No. 1 of Chicago neighborhood (1895
- 16. Course Description: Nineteenth-century cities posed unprecedented challenges given the availability of information that could be spatially represented. Advances in geographic surveying, the development of photography, the emergence of geography as a discipline, and even the term “cartography” are all products of the nineteenth century and carried significant weight in the practice of mapping cities during that time. This class will look at maps produced in selected cities of Europe, United States, northern Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, exploring the impact of industrial expansion, colonial ambitions, frontier enterprises, and technological developments in transportation and telecommunication. Readings span a range of disciplines to encompass the experience of the nineteenth-century city as well as a theoretical perspective of the act of mapping the metropole versus the colonial city. Class discussions and short writing assignments will complement a digital mapping project that critically engages with the themes of the course and places students in the role of a mapmaker. In many ways, our current moment in the cultural production of maps parallels the challenges of increased flows of data and information organization witnessed in the nineteenth century. Thus, in this class we will be engaging in these two temporal worlds simultaneously, moving between them fluidly in our discussions but also consciously through assignments. By this I mean that we will consider the historical production of maps as we participate in our own production of maps.
- 17. Goals: • to consider maps as products of the cultures and intellectual climate in which they were made • to provide an art historical overview of nineteenth-century cities as portrayed through mapping practices • to situate key moments in the history of nineteenth-century urban mapping to a larger discourse of spatial thinking and postcolonial critiques Objectives: • to research the experience of a nineteenth-century city using primary source materials • to clearly and visually organize that data in a deep-mapping project • to develop a critical essay that examines a chosen topic of the deep mapping project in the context of spatial thinking and postcolonial critiques • to converse fluently about the function of maps as they inform experiences of the city
- 18. Access to all readings for the semester and lecture PowerPoints: Moodle 2: https://moodle2.bard.edu/course/view.php?id=502 access: frontierS16 login: [your Bard credentials]
- 19. Assignments and Projects: Course Blog: http://courseblogs.bard.edu/arth238s16 login*: [your Bard credentials] access to Dashboard: once you have logged in the first time, I will change your user to “Author” so you can post to the blog * To login, find the “Meta” panel, and click on “Login.” This will subscribe you to the blog, but you will not be able to post immediately. I will have to add you as an author after your initial login.
- 20. Annotation of readings: hypothes.is: links to readings will be provided on the Course Blog login: You will need to create your own account at https://hypothes.is/register group: The link to join “ArtH 238 Bard” is: https://hypothes.is/groups/bZan745Z/arth-238-bard please annotate under this group