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Subject: Forthcoming exhibition in Oxford
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 10:28:12 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Nick Millea <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Colleagues,

[Apologies for cross-posting: posted to carto-soc, liber-gdc,
lis-maps, maphist-l, and maps-l]

STREET MAPPING: AN A TO Z OF URBAN CARTOGRAPHY
3 February to 26 April 2003
Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library, Oxford

This exhibition will consider the evolution of town plans as a
cartographic genre,
using examples from the Bodleian Library's map collections. Special
attention
will be paid to the mapping of Oxford itself, monitoring cartographic
development
from the sixteenth-century map of the city by Agas to the most recent
products
from the twenty-first century. There will also be the opportunity
compare the works
of celebrated street map publishers over the centuries, while mapping of
urban
growth will be portrayed through the development of St Petersburg from a
desolate marsh to an imperial capital to commemorate the 300th
anniversary
of the city's foundation in 1703. There will be a selection of maps of
streets
that were planned but never built. Other maps from around the world will
compare cartographic styles and conventions over the centuries,
reflecting
the considerable strengths of the Library's holdings.

A catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition, available
for sale in early March.

For further details, please contact:

Nick Millea
Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
tel       : 01865 287119
fax      : 01865 277139
email : [log in to unmask]

homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/