Global Urban Humanities/Future Histories Lab

Maps are also a form of narrative and a form of art. In this video, Katharine Harmon, author of The Map as Art, discusses how narrative contents create maps, and set up the vocabulary of maps. "Maps come when narrative is not enough, or the opposite, narrative comes when the map is not enough."Rebecca Solnit, author of Unfathomable City and Infinite City, discusses the making of maps as a way of knowing places. "I love maps, because maps make my cognition about cities, places." Maps are, in Solnit's view, a way of keeping place and culture alive, and of "making things invisible visible." UCLA's Dana Cuff provides a response to both speakers.