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Figure-ground contrast, in the context of map design, is a property of a map in which the map image can be partitioned into a single feature or type of feature that is considered as an object of attention (the figure), with the remainder of the map being relegated to the background, outside the current focus of attention. [1]
A figure-ground diagram is a two-dimensional map of an urban space that shows the relationship between built and unbuilt space. It is used in analysis of urban design and planning . It is akin to but not the same as a Nolli map which denotes public space both within and outside buildings and also akin to a block pattern diagram that records ...
The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England .
English: Insurance Map of Boston, Volume I, 1867, by D. A. Sanborn, C. E. Sheet 13, showing part of downtown Boston and the Boston waterfront. The index to the atlas is located here . Legend:
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Map of Shawmut Peninsula from 1775 showing tactical positions from the perspective of the British Army Shawmut Peninsula is the promontory of land on which Boston , Massachusetts was built. The peninsula , originally a mere 789 acres (3.19 km 2 ) in area, [ 1 ] more than doubled in size due to land reclamation efforts that were a feature of the ...
1852 Map of Boston area showing Arlington, then called West Cambridge. The former Middlesex Canal is highlighted. The Jason Russell House is a museum which remembers those 12 Americans who were killed in and around this pictured dwelling on April 19, 1775. Bullet holes are visible in the interior walls to this day.
The Dorchester North Burying Ground (or "First Burying Ground in Dorchester") is a historic graveyard at Stoughton Street and Columbia Road in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The burial ground was established in 1634, as the front sign reads [ 2 ] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and was ...