You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
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episode 39: Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.”
Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with facades, the history of Rome’s urban fabric, why master planning begins with the negative space, and how “you'd be hard-pressed to find an ugly city before 1930.” See his work at studioredcar.com
- His maps of St. Patrick’s & St. Hedwig’s Parishes, Via Belisarius
- Ettore Mazzola
- Douglas Duany
- John Decuir
- James Rouse
- The Disneyland pitch map
- The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI run by cartographer Andrew Middleton
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