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In the summer of 2019, a research project spearheaded by Monument Lab<\/a> asked St. Louis residents and visitors to draw personal maps of the city\u2019s monuments and important sites. \u201cSome maps celebrate famous sites like the St. Louis Zoo and the statue of St. Louis himself atop Art Hill in Forest Park. Others point to things that have been removed from the landscape, like the mounds built by native Mississippians,\u201d St. Louis Public Radio reports<\/a>. \u201cAnother shows a street map of downtown St. Louis with notations for \u2018incidents of racism, from microaggression to racial violence.\u2019\u201d A total of 750 people contributed maps, which you can see at this Flickr gallery<\/a> as well as on the project website<\/a>, which has accompanying data and analysis. [Osher<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2019, a research project spearheaded by Monument Lab asked St. Louis residents and visitors to draw personal maps of the city\u2019s monuments and important sites. \u201cSome maps celebrate famous sites like… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[54,261,191,531],"class_list":["post-1789144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-cities","tag-crowdsourcing","tag-hand-drawn","tag-st-louis","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1807143,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789144,"position":0},"title":"Pictorial St. Louis","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 May 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"On the Library of Congress\u2019s map blog, World\u2019s Revealed, Julie Stoner takes a look at a rather unusual example of a bird\u2019s-eye (or panoramic) city map. \u201cThe Geography and Map Division has over 1,700 of these beautiful panoramic maps in the collection, but one item stands out above all the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pictorial St. Louis (Plate 2)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis-plate-2-1024x700.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis-plate-2-1024x700.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis-plate-2-1024x700.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pictorial-st-louis-plate-2-1024x700.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2192,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/06\/fantasy-maps-exhibit-at-st-louis-central-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789144,"position":1},"title":"Fantasy Maps Exhibit at St. Louis Central Library","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"11 June 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Fantasy Maps: Imagined Worlds, a new exhibition at\u00a0St. Louis's Central Library, features enlarged prints of fantasy maps and a 75\u00d725-foot illustrated map of St. Louis on the floor of the library's great hall. 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