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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Kitty Harmon
Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
Trade paperback, 192 pages with 155 maps and 6 essays
ISBN 1-56898-430-8
$19.95
You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of inventive maps designed for voyages of the imagination. Visit an ideal country estate from a dog's perspective, take a trip down the road to success, or cross into lands imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. The maps' creators offer an abundance of whimsical explorations as they venture beyond the boundaries of geography and convention.

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Want to see more maps like the ones included in You Are Here? Try these links:
How to read a map:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/epo/mapexhib/map.html
Set from the film Dogville:
http://film.spettacolo.virgilio.it/cinema/dvd.php?dvd=957
Fool’s world map
http://www.zen-style.com/world/
NEU-YORK: how Manhattan might have looked had the Nazis conquered it in World War II:
http://www.megophone.com/neuyork.html
The Kingdom of France as a ship
http://memory.loc.gov/.
An interactive environment for exploring place, based on the photos people take:
www.mappr.com
Urban tablets: ceramic city maps:
http://www.mindspring.com/~intherealm/tablets.html
Beautiful paintings: http://chaselangford.com/PM1/pm1.htm
Australian Aboriginal dream map http://www.users.bigpond.com/Mangkaja_Arts/webpage/canvassing.html#five
Children's maps
http://www.papaink.org/gallery/home/picture/display/5868.html
Painkiller map
http://www.kb.nl/persons/jan-smits/cartifact/imaginary03.html
Map of Watership Down
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/english/watership/watership-map-1.shtml
Navajo sand paintings
http://www.penfieldgallery.com/sand.html
Maps of the Internet
http://research.lumeta.com/ches/map/gallery/index.html
Map of Margaritaville on a t-shirt
http://margaritavillestore.com/browse.cfm/4,84.html
New Yorkistan
http://www.photonewyork.com/nm46980.html
Create your own maps
http://www.worldofexperience.com/CreateAndPrint/create_select.asp
http://www.digiwis.com/custom.htm
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