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12 December 2010
An old, but important map
The Disunion blog at NYTimes.com talks about how important a map of slavery was to President Lincoln.
Once upon a time in Mike Siegel's Advanced Cartography class, I proposed a final project mapping the Great Migration. It was a good idea, but one that was too big for me at the time. I think the white spaces on this map would have been an inspirational jumping-off point. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
An Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture in Rutgers’ School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He also serves as Associate Director of the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis and Undergradaute Program Director for Environmental Planning and Design. As a graduate of Kentucky (BSLA), LSU (MLA) and Wisconsin (PhD), he has a passion for the critical role of state universities as a source for world-class research and education based on inquiry arousal but is too busy keeping up this award-winning blog. Dr. Tulloch can be reached at dtulloch[at]crssa.rutgers.edu
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Once upon a time in Mike Siegel's Advanced Cartography class, I proposed a final project mapping the Great Migration. It was a good idea, but one that was too big for me at the time. I think the white spaces on this map would have been an inspirational jumping-off point. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
I just read the visualizing summary and its quite informative.
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