Stratigraphies of Infestation. In his book Rats, Robert Sullivan—an author whose work we previously reviewed here—offers a glimpse of how the city is seen through the eyes of the pest-control industry.
[Image: Rats by Robert Sullivan]. Effective rodent control requires a very specific kind of spatial knowledge, Sullivan suggests, one that often eludes architects and city planners. Sullivan quotes one rat-control professional, for instance, who "foresees a day when he will be hired to analyze a building's weaknesses, vis-à-vis pests and rodents... 'They design buildings to support pigeons and for infiltration by rodents because they don't think about it.
Grand Central Station, right? Florida Maps - Mosquito County. Complete Map of Europe, Year 1200. This map is in Sovereign States mode, zoom in to display the dependencies.
2008 February « Strange Maps.