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Has a Map Changed Your Life? Tell Us About It.

As part of our series The Maps That Make Us, we’re asking readers to share mini-essays about a map that is especially important.
Have a map in your life that is meaningful? Share your story with CityLab.Shutterstock

How do we find our way through the world? We follow maps, and we make our own. Sometimes we wander off the map entirely.

The special CityLab series The Maps That Make Us is creating space to talk about the life-shaping role maps have on us. In her introduction to the series, Laura Bliss writes: “Because they can be so curiously emotional, maps are as capable of directing the way we relate to our world as they are of reflecting it.”