Mapping the World’s Great Cities in a Most Unusual, Yet Visually Arresting, Fashion | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian
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Part urban planner, part cartographer, sculptor Norwood Viviano uses state-of-the-art mapping tools to make powerful works of art
By Alex Palmer
smithsonian.com
October 7, 2016
Norwood Viviano prides himself on impeccable accuracy in his sculptures, which draw on topographical and census data to create models of cities at particular times and across centuries. But he finds this data interesting not in its practical use (say for the historian or the traveler), but in the deeper investigations that it presents.
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