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Mapping Manchester Cartographic Stories of the City Exhibition catalogue edited by Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins Geography, School of Environment and Development The University of Manchester Contents About the exhibition 3 Exhibition acknowledgements 5 Cabinet 1: The map makers 6 Cabinet 2: The car and the city 8 Cabinet 3: Public transport 10 Cabinet 4: City of industry 12 Cabinet 5: Wealth and poverty 14 Cabinet 6: The moral city 16 Cabinet 7: Mapping the future city 18 Cabinet 8: Leisure and pleasure 20 Cabinet 9: The hydraulic city 22 Cabinet 10: Bird’s eye views of the city 24 Panel 1: Mapping Manchester by cartographic scale 26 Panel 2: Mapping Manchester by cartographic theme 27 Panel 3: Mapping Manchester through time 28 Panel 4: Mapping Manchester by changing cartographic design 29 PC display 1: Population map for Greater Manchester 30 PC display 2: Virtual model of Manchester city centre 31 Piccadilly Gardens model 32 Listing of exhibition items 33 Mapping Manchester epilogue 38 Exhibition opening, 24th June 2009. Photography courtesy of Tinho da Cruz. Copyright: Creative Commons license The John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH, UK. 0161 306 0555 www.manchester.ac.uk/library jrl.visitors@manchester.ac.uk 2009 2
About the exhibition This exhibition reveals some of the ways in which mapping is ingrained into urban life. It demonstrates how maps change over time in response to technology, society and economic imperatives, highlighting visually striking cartographic representations of Manchester. Mapping Manchester showcases the wealth of cartographic treasures held by the University of Manchester and other institutions in the city, including generous loans of materials from the Manchester Archives and Local Studies Library. The maps exhibited are more than just ‘pretty pictures’ – they are powerful tools, instrumental to the development of contemporary Manchester, and can be read as rich stories of urban life. Over eighty different maps, plans, diagrams and photographs of the city – published over the last two hundred and fifty years – are on display. These range in date from the first large scale survey of the city published by William Green in 1794, to a 2008 statistical map of binge drinking hotspots across Manchester. A wide range of formats can be seen – from network diagrams, building plans and strip maps, to three-dimensional bird’s-eye views, such as Heywood’s iconic Victorian Pictorial Map of Manchester and digital animated mapping. From SELNEC Highway Plan, 1962 (Courtesy of Chetham’ s Library) Richard Bastow’s map of housing, 1880s 3
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Page 6 and 7: The map makers The story of the peo
Page 8 and 9: The car and the city The rapid expa
Page 10 and 11: Public transport Most people in Man
Page 12 and 13: City of industry Manchester is a ci
Page 14 and 15: Wealth and poverty Manchester’s b
Page 16 and 17: The moral city Maps have social pow
Page 18 and 19: Mapping the future city Maps allow
Page 20 and 21: Leisure and pleasure Organised leis
Page 22 and 23: The hydraulic city The ways in whic
Page 24 and 25: Bird’s eye views of the city Most
Page 26 and 27: Mapping Manchester by cartographic
Page 28 and 29: Mapping Manchester through time Car
Page 30 and 31: Population map for Greater Manchest
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Page 34 and 35: Listing continued Brochure cover re
Page 36 and 37: Listing continued City of Mancheste
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