While I was busy with the 30 Day Map Challenge last month, two new books from Belt Publishing's 50 Maps series were released. This two-city release reminded me that I also missed some other releases since I last covered this series. Thanks to the generosity of cartographer Andy Woodruff most of this post will feature Cincinnati.
“editor Nick Swartsell and cartographer Andy Woodruff present over fifty ways of looking at the Queen City, from its early roadways and Indigenous earthworks to its shifting neighborhood borders. A visualization of relative population density can tell one story, and one showing where jobs are clustered tells another. New maps with up-to-date data sit beside historical maps that show things like exactly how communities were razed to make room for highways.“ You are invited to “find every place you can get Cincinnati chili, the location of every public stairway, and where the infamous Cincy traffic is worst.“ Here are some maps courtesy of Andy.
Above are the city’s inclines, and a beautiful representation of the area’s topography that gave rise to them. The numbers show hills with scenic views of the city.
This map shows the city’s municipal islands with a nice legend. Columbus has even more of these.
In addition to these inholdings are the city’s “other” downtowns; the neighborhood business districts. Here are some of them.
Columbus in 50 Maps has also just been released.
“Columbus is a place perpetually in search of an identity. Once called a “cow town,” it is now a sprawling metropolitan area and home to the behemoth Ohio State University. How can one best represent the city, in all its complications and contradictions?”
Edited by Brent Warren with cartography from Vicky Johnson-Dahl, it shows “things that are inherently Columbus, from ComFest to the present and former locations of the city’s iconic arches.“ It also offers “maps that offer surprising ways of looking at the city“. Unfortunately there’s not much I can share with you as Belt and Arcadia Publishing don’t share images of what’s inside. Without stealing from the book, all I have are these low resolution images from Amazon. The first one shows Columbus’s municipal islands.
Two other books briefly reached my attention but I never got around to buying or reviewing them. For now I will just mention Pittsburgh, “one of America’s most consistently surprising cities“,
and the Great Lakes, the only regional, non-urban map in this series.
“The largest freshwater system on Earth, like you’ve never seen it before.“
Again, not much in the way of maps I can show but I found this nice map of the cryptids (lake monsters) of the Great Lakes, via the Milwaukee Record.
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