This book would not exist without the exquisite craft of the cartographers and designers presented herein. We must first acknowledge the authors of these images, as well as the collections, archives, and institutions in which they have been reposited.
We would like to thank Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, for initiating this project, and Patricia Roberts, Executive Dean; Beth Kramer, Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations; and Benjamin Prosky, Assistant Dean for Communications, of the Harvard Graduate School of Design for their support.
The exhibition that informed this publication would not have been possible absent the leadership of Dan Borelli and David Zimmerman-Stuart, the editorial acumen of Melissa Vaughn and Jake Starmer, and the contributions of our colleagues Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Fadi Masoud, Siena Scarff, Anya Domlesky, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Ezban, Lara Mehling, Stacy Morton, and Savina Romanos. We are indebted to the librarians and staff at the Harvard libraries for their help with the research for the project: Ann Whiteside, Mary Daniels, Inés Zalduendo, Alix Reiskind, Johanna Kasubowski, Irina Gornstein, and Adam Kellie from the Frances Loeb Library; Joseph Garver, Jonathan Rosenwasser, and Scott Walker from the Pusey Map Collection; and Michael Leach from the Cabot Science Library. We have been blessed with excellent research assistants who helped us with the considerable labor of converting the exhibition material into book form: Helen Kongsgaard, whose insightful mind and critical eye has helped to guide the project, and Megan Jones Shiotani, whose incredible hard work, infectious enthusiasm, concise research, quick drawing, and relentless permission hunting helped make this book a reality.
We would like to thank those who contributed their translation skills, from French, Chinese, German, and Japanese to English, and from the MLA Style Manual to the Chicago Manual of Style: Alexander Cassini, Lara Mehling, Sam Sullivan, Eri Yamagata, and Yi Yang.
And those whose have offered time, meals, quiet places to write, emergency computers, red vines, love, support, encouragement, and critical insight: Daniel Bauer; Linda and Donald Desimini; Suzanne, Robert, Sam, and Louise Sullivan; Margie, Mark, and Rachel Bauer; Pierre Bélanger; Silvia Benedito; Anita Berrizbeitia; Eve Blau; Neil Brenner; Felipe Correa; Bruno De Meulder; Gareth Doherty; Sonja Dümpelmann; Edward Eigen; Rosetta S. Elkin; Stephen Ervin; John Dixon Hunt; Jane Hutton; Rahul Mehrotra; Mark Monmonier; Mark Mulligan; Antoine Picon; Bill Rankin; Hashim Sarkis; Kelly Shannon; Carl Steinitz; John Stilgoe; and Paola Viganò.
Finally, we are pleased to dedicate this book to Nora and Cale, nascent cartographers and attentive readers of the cartographic grounds.