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Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas represents a new way of mapping cities through 150 infographic maps of varied and unexpected topics about Portland, Oregon. The maps explore issues like the city's changing lakes, streams, and wetlands over time; chicken coop and coyote sightings; racial diversity; security camera locations; and breweries. Each map starts with a data set that is then translated visually in a style that blends traditional cartography with modern graphic design. The book aims to provide new perspectives on Portland and on the potential of cartography through topics not traditionally mapped, like graffiti, strip clubs, and house colors by neighborhood.

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Portlandness

Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas represents a new way of mapping cities through 150 infographic maps of varied and unexpected topics about Portland, Oregon. The maps explore issues like the city's changing lakes, streams, and wetlands over time; chicken coop and coyote sightings; racial diversity; security camera locations; and breweries. Each map starts with a data set that is then translated visually in a style that blends traditional cartography with modern graphic design. The book aims to provide new perspectives on Portland and on the potential of cartography through topics not traditionally mapped, like graffiti, strip clubs, and house colors by neighborhood.

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PLEASE DO NOT PRINT REVIEW BEFORE RELEASE DATE OF OCTOBER 27, 2015

Contact Haley Stocking, Publicist • 206/826-4318 • [email protected]

Portlandness
A Cultural Atlas
David Banis and Hunter Shobe


Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas (Sasquatch Books; $24.95; October 2015)
represents a new way of looking at a city by two leading geographers,
David Banis and Hunter Shobe. Through 150 infographic maps, Banis and
Shobe prove that cartography is about much more than land.

Far from being black and white, maps tell stories based on what the
mapmaker chooses to include or not include. Portlandness breaks free of
the usual map conventions, offering a large variety of map styles in an effort
to provide a new look at Portland, Oregon and a new look at cartography.
Portlandness explores such varied and unexpected topics as:
• Lost Waters and Phantom Streams (the change of Portland’s lakes, streams, and wetlands over time)
• The City Chicken and the Country Coyote (chicken coops and coyote sightings)
• Islands of Diversity (tracking racial diversity in the Portland area)
• Mission Invisible (security camera locations)
• A Paler Shade of Ale (breweries: number, color, and bitterness of brew)

The hidden stories of Portland emerge in these fascinating and colorful infographic maps. How
long do people wait in line for Sunday brunch at Tasty n Alder? How many decibels does the roar at a
Portland Timbers match hit? When mapmaking takes on nontraditional topics like patterns of graffiti,
locations of strip clubs, or even which neighborhoods favor which house colors, finding your way around
the city takes on a whole new meaning. Each map starts with the gathering of at least one data set about a
given topic, then translating that to a visual format that blends traditional cartographic skills with modern
graphic design.


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About the Authors

David Banis has managed the Center for Spatial Analysis and Research in the Geography
Department at Portland State University since 2006, working with a wide variety of partners at
the federal, state, and local levels. His work explores the diverse ways that cartographers can tell
stories with maps, focusing on the mapping of nontraditional subjects.

Hunter Shobe is a cultural geographer and assistant professor at Portland State University. He
holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon and has over fifteen years of
experience researching the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of how people connect to
places and environments.

Portlandness
A Cultural Atlas
David Banis and Hunter Shobe

October 2015 • $24.95 • 192 pages • Hardcover


ISBN 978-1-63217-000-2

Available wherever fine books are sold.


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206/467-4300 • TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 • FAX 206/467-4301
www.sasquatchbooks.com
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1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 710 • SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101
206/467-4300 • TOLL FREE 800/775-0817 • FAX 206/467-4301
www.sasquatchbooks.com

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