Observed arrival · 2026-10-28
Santurce Digital: Reading the City Through Its Maps
A Spanish-language interactive archive uses maps, photographs, and other historical materials to explore Santurce’s changing geography and history.
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- Readers researching Santurce’s urban history
- Worth noticing
- The project cautions that maps distort geography and can encode their authors’ silences, asking who and what goes unrepresented.
Field notes
The project frames maps as historical arguments as well as geographic records, noting that older plans may be physically fragmented and that maps can preserve their authors’ omissions. Its tramway account names the 1878 concession, the 1901 electric-service launch, and the 1928 disruption after Hurricane San Felipe. The Storymaps section is labeled as forthcoming.
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