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Washington, District of Columbia is the city / county / not-quite-but-sometimes-fills-in-for-being-a-state where I live. Creating these maps have made me think about this city, what it was and what it is becoming. |  |
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To think about moving through the city, I used the trip from the hospital where I was born to the house where I now live.
To consider who has lived here, after the Powhatan and the farmers who were on the very boundary of L'Enfant's city,
I used census data for the tract where my house is. I looked at the deeds over the century, of couples buying the house and selling later. |
| How the streets are named, where the parks are, who lives in my neighborhood and how many people have moved there, are all part of what Washington is. The maps I looked at during this process and the maps I made make me realize how much more there is to figure out. |  |