What are the legacies upon which our cities our built?
Completed in the fifth month of the Israel genocide of Palestinians, this project spatializes the colonial legacies of the U.S. military in one of Asia's largest cities. Through the digitization of archival military maps, the project also aims to reignite common awareness of the use and development of cartography as, first and foremost, a tool of war, destruction, and colonization.
The archival map on the left, published by U.S. Army in 1946, was manually digitized by the cartographer to align with 2024 ESRI satellite imagery of Seoul.
QGIS | Columbia GSAPP | Spring 2024 | methods in spatial research | Professor adam vosburgh