This document discusses the mapping of Chicago over time and how maps both represent and shape the city. It notes that maps are not neutral representations but social constructs that can be interrogated and influence authority and control. The document references early accurate maps of major cities, Chicago's population growth, quotes about the city being both real and visionary, and how modern maps continue to be proactive agents in shaping the city as both causes and effects.

1. Mapping Chicago
Urban Cartography and the Mapping of
Chicago, Robert Churchill

2. "The realization a map is not a neutral
representation but an argument with a
distinct point of view that can be
interrogated textually affords a context in
which representations of the city can be
explored as interwoven social constructs
and as instruments of authority and
control without diminishing their value as
data sources, illustrative devices, and
historical archives."

4. Civitates Orbis Terrarum - first representation of major cities that are both accurate
and comprehensive in geographical scope

5. Chicago Population and City Rank

6. "A landscape that is
part real and part
visionary"
From the 1909 Plan
of Chicago

14. Mapping Chicago Today
Map by RadicalCartography.net
"Maps are
proactive
agents in
shaping the city
- both cause
and effect"
Do you agree?
Any questions?