Living Maps: An Atlas Of Cities Personified

Living Maps: An Atlas Of Cities PersonifiedThis collection of maps explores the unique personalities of 28 cities around the world, shedding light on the strange and marvelous ways in which humans interact with the places they call home. Artist and creative cartographer Adam Dant dissects Manhattan in an anatomical diagram, traces the form of a Picasso nude in the streets of Monaco, and transforms the crisscrossing paths of boats on the Bosporus into the nerves of Istanbul. Dant draws on the

resulting in thirty-six different looks

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took classes

They are ready to buy what you sell

and setting your school on fireoh

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and the future she has always dreamt of

and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins

from the bicycle that sent Eddy Merckx over the finish line in his last world championship win

But what's lurking in the dark is a greater danger than ever before: somebody on a mission to destroy the neighborhood and Adam

and temperaments along with notes addressed to "you