Tag: maps

The man who designed Gotham City

Post author By Jimmy Stamp
Post date 23 June, 2014

Gotham City is the perpetually dark comic book metropolis of alleys, asylums, caves, mansions, and of course, Batman. The Dark Knight of DC Comics celebrates his 75th anniversary this year but Gotham didn’t become the hometown of the Caped Crusader until 1940, when Batman co-creator Bill Finger named the city for the first time inBatman […]

Tags Batman, comic books, Gotham City, maps, Pop culture

Architecture

The Apocryphal Cartographies of Carroll and Borges

Post author By Jimmy Stamp
Post date 26 October, 2008

An excerpt from the astounding Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, by Lewis Carroll: “What a useful thing a pocket-map is!” I remarked. “That’s another thing we’ve learned from your Nation,” said Mein Herr, “map-making. But we’ve carried it much further than you. What do you consider the largest map that would be really useful?” “About six […]

Tags borges, cartography, Fiction, lewis carroll, lit without buildings, maps, Pop culture