Great book cover on Peter Gould and Rodney White's Mental Maps (Pelican 1974) by geographer Gerald Fremlin, then of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa. Mental Maps is perhaps a bookend to Lynch's Image of the City. (Fremlin is married to author Alice Munro.)
Elsewhere in anthropocartography, more mental mapping...
- Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination (via space and culture), and reviewed here.
- Memorymapping, which invites visitors to draw maps of places they’ve lived based solely on memory (via the Map room)
- Mapsproject, which collects the personal maps people draw (via ?)
- Schulze's machine for recording how we draw our maps
... and some corporeal mapping:
The Phoenicians [...] assigned names to locations based on the names of parts of the human body. The body was "mapped" to the area so that simply knowing the Phoenician name for the area enabled one to know approximately where it was in relation to other areas (body parts) of the same map. In English, one would call this "the lay of the land", that is, how the body is configured on the ground. [says Izzy Cohen, via Angermann2's geo-anatomy].
- Fritz Kahn's Man as industrial place (1926)
- the City in man (via Angermann2's geo-anatomy)
- Heartmap, and its cousin, the Cardiac transportation routes (via ?)
- Anthropomorphic London
- Global participatory "Fool's World Map" project (via space and culture)
- Burning man: "Black Rock City is divided into a series of semi-circular roads, so that the city itself looks like a giant horseshoe. The roads are named after parts of the body - Head Way, Sex Drive, Feet Street"
- all these "via"s, like directions.
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