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Let's start with the obvious question: What is a spatial profile? By "spatial profile" I have in mind the following idea: that any place - any area located on the surface of the Earth, no matter its size - has a set of characteristics that define it, lend it coherence, and allow it to be imbued with meaning through human thought or action. Those…

Catherine the Great wanted to build a new urban landscape. The empire responded.(Sort of. Eventually.) Empress Catherine II, who ruled Russia 1762-1796, was a planner. She planned to build a new Russia. An enlightened Russia. An empire without rival. An empire with expansive borders and a robust urban landscape. She knew what she wanted to create…

This collection contains the sheets of the Chorographic atlas ("sketch-book") of Siberia produced by Semyon Remezov in 1696-1697. The atlas was commissioned by Tsar Peter I.