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The exhibition is open Monday to Friday: 9.30-16.45 and Saturday: 9.30-12.30
  
   
STREET MAPPING: AN A TO Z OF URBAN CARTOGRAPHY  
   
5 February to 26 April 2003  
 
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Exhibition Room, Bodleian Library, Oxford  
   
This exhibition will consider the evolution of town plans as a cartographic genre, using examples from the Bodleian Library's map collections. Special attention will be paid to the mapping of Oxford itself, monitoring cartographic development from the sixteenth-century map of the city by Agas to the most recent products from the twenty-first century. There will also be the opportunity compare the works of celebrated street map publishers over the centuries, while mapping of urban growth will be portrayed through the development of St Petersburg from a desolate marsh to an imperial capital to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the city's foundation in 1703. There will be a selection of maps of streets that were planned but never built. Other maps from around the world will compare cartographic styles and conventions over the centuries, reflecting the considerable strengths of the Library's holdings.  
   

The exhibition catalogue which features many illustrations of the exhibits, is available from the Bodleian Library at
£12.95GBP each, plus p&p at £2.00GBP UK Inland and £3.50GBP elsewhere.

The catalogue is available from the Bodleian Library giftshop or by mail-order.

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For further details, please contact:  

Nick Millea
Map Librarian
Bodleian Library

 
 
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