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For some decades, and more precisely from the mid-20th century, with the advent of technological progress in the field of cartography and with the emergence of human geography, the relationship between literature and geography has aroused a great deal of interest among researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences. Literary cartography is thus transformed into a fascinating interdisciplinary field. In the present descriptive-analytical study, in order to understand how maps and literary texts interact and influence each other and how space and place are perceived in White’s works, first of all, we explain in detail the various links that unite geographers and writers, their point of view, and their own mapping methods elaboration. Then, we try to define the map, the cartographer, and the old cartography map vs. the new cartography. In the following, we will also explain the role of the map in White’s poetry and the poet’s vision of cartography. The last part of the study is dedicated to the approaches of two researchers and pioneers in the field of literary cartography, Franco Moretti and Barbara Piatti, whose projects are both comparative and historical while comparing their points of view with those of Kenneth White. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The territorial ideology related to Romania’s border with Hungary played a significant role in forging the national narrative of the Romanian statebuilding process. In order to enrich a still underdeveloped scholarship on Romanian borders and borderlands, the following article examines how geography and maps are used by interwar Romanian geographers and cartographers in order to legitimize the Western border and to invent it as a marker of territorial sovereignty. More precisely, I argue that the RomanianHungarian borderland was ideologically and socially constructed as a distinct geopolitical region through various practices of geographical nationalism. By exploring a particular geographical imaginary of security and threat, this paper is both a call for nuanced interpretation and more sustained investigation of the way in which geopolitics, demography and cartography relate to borders, sovereignty, and nationalism in creating geographies of exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on crossroads of a community of life and a community of ideas with borders and (in) communications. It mentions regional governments wanted to strengthen not only economic but also institutional and cultural exchanges between territories on both sides of the political border. It also mentions interest in representing Europe in all its states has led cartographers, to be developed throughout the 19th century the first maps of European languages.

Esse artigo analisa as formas de produção de mapas na França e na Inglaterra durante o século XVIII. Discute a formação e os mecanismos de atuação dos geógrafos e topógrafos, bem como os mecanismos de produção, reprodução e comércio de mapas na época.This article analyses the map production in France and England in the Eighteenth Century. Presents the training methods and the daily life of geographers and surveyors, also the map's production, reproduction and trade at that time.

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This article discusses three maps made by the cartographer J.A. d'Herlin of three towns in Belgium: Namur, Tournai and Ypres which were drawn between 1749 and 1752. Although academic interest has focused on the maps themselves, here the author seeks to study the author himself. Because little is known about his life the study focuses on his military career in which he was a military engineer. Only three copies of hand written work are known to have survived, and so the article relies on facsimiles in its study.

This article discusses the oldest known map and manuscript which is focused on the city design of the principality of Brabant in present day Belgium. It is believed to have been made in 1536 by Gilles van der Hecken and is unique to the time period for its focus on the principality and not on the area which surrounds it. It can be found in the book "Oppida Brabantie cum villis liberis atque pagis seriatim descripta." A study of the materials, the cartography, and the history of the map is undertaken.

The article discusses the Hackaton Île-de-France 2030 meeting in Paris, France, from March 22-24, 2013. Focus was given to computer programmers, cartographers, designers, and urbanists establishing digital applications for open data in the Île-de-France region in France. The application developed by the team Nettoyeurs which informs on where to bury a body in Paris is also discussed.