Charles Waldheim is the principal of Urban Agency in Cambridge, MA, and the John E. Irving professor and chair of landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is the author of PAPress's Landscape Urbanism Reader. Jill Desimini is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Metropolis
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"The elegantly designed "Cartographic Grounds" looks in depth at 10
map-making strategies from a scholarly perspective and tracks their
evolution through the centuries." - Chicago Tribune, Printers Row
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