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Thesis explained: Cartography and transformation of the territory in Catalonia between the Old Regime and the revolution
06/02/2021 | Local maps, Spreading, Thesis, Urban mapping

  Meritxell Gisbert Traveria, member of the GEHC, tells his thesis, entitled Cartografia i transformació del territori a Catalunya entre l’Antic Règim i la Revolució liberal (ss. XVIII-XIX): el paper de la família Soler, in this talk from the past 28 January 2021, which was organised by the Societat Catalana de Geografia. The thesis was read on June […]

DeuWatts Video “El món dels mapes”
26/02/2017 | Spreading

How a map is read?  Interpreting it by layes. Observing information that there is a first sight, but imaging the purpose of the maker. And remembering that maps contain silences and forgetfulness.  This is the guigind thread of DeuWatts programme, of betevé, that was boradcast February 21, 2017, where different cartographic visions about Barcelona were reviewed. Among others, Carme Montaner collaborated. […]