The Downtown Eastside and Strathcona are some of the first places in Vancouver settled by European, African, and Asian people. Many Indigenous people also live in this neighbourhood. Gastown, Chinatown, Japantown, Hogan's Alley and Victory Square are all …

Using race and population data from the 2010 census mapped by National Geographic, we were able to spot this rampant form of racial segregation throughout the country from rural coastal communities to tourist towns to major cities. In each location, people of color have been systematically excluded from living on the shore.

Aug 11, 2020 · Below each map, a key translates the names of towns, cities, and bodies of water alongside their English colonial names. “Many cartographers from earlier times named most if not all mountains,...

Apr 5, 2022 · Founded in 2014, the Decolonial Atlas Project is a repository of maps that run against the grain of the colonial tradition of cartography. In an excellent introduction to decolonial mapmaking, Engel explains:

Decolonial maps & atlases. Native-Land.ca - non-academic project to decolonize maps of indigenous territories. Maps potentially function as colonial artifacts and represent a very particular way of seeing the world – a way primarily concerned with …

Jul 6, 2018 · A new historiographic cartography can focus on recognizing the political implications of infrastructural change over time. Decolonial maps, then, house the potential energy for active decolonial projects, framing information in such ways as …

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Apr 10, 2019 · The Downtown Eastside was originally the central hub for everything cultural and political – the sawmills that were in Gastown helped build a commercial sector. There were banks, theatres, head offices, and hotels, and more.

districts has its own color-coded map with easy-to-read points that can be used to find your own favorite site, or as a self-guided walking tour the next time you find yourself out strolling on the Upper East Side.

May 11, 2015 · This series of maps come from the Welikia Project (formerly known as the Mannahatta Project) – a project of the Wildlife Conservation Society to rediscover the ecology of the New York City area from before colonization. – www.welikia.org. Above: Mannahatta circa 1609. Below: Southern Manhattan today. Left: Mannahatta circa 1609.