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Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city (2018)
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Banou, S. (2018). Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city. lo Squaderno, 50, 7-12

Jorge Luis Borges’ short story ‘On Exactitude in Science’ (1946) has been referred to innumerous times: it features a map that is repeatedly revisited and scaled up, until it becomes contiguous with its referent object (the territory) and effaces it.... Read More about Picture perfect: Maps and other measures of the contemporary city.