Liberty’s Grid: A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size

Notes

1 Alexander seems to rehearse much of the argument previously made by Keith Krumwiede in his satirical 'architectural fiction,' Atlas of Another America, Being a Description of Freedomland, a Twenty-First Century Settlement Scheme for the American Nation in the Grand Agrarian Democratic Tradition of Mr. Thomas Jefferson (Zurich: Park Books, 2016), although Krumwiede was explicit that the curvaceous suburban developments were all made within the larger grid.

2 Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), esp. 64–73.

3 Edney, Cartography, 176–222. See also Miranda Meyer, 'A Calculative Cosmography: Geodesy and Absolute Space,' Environment and Planning F: Philosophy, Theory, Modes, Methods and Practice, preprint February 2024 at https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/epfa/0/0.

4 Amy DeRogatis, Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).