THE PLATE SERIES · I–XIX

The Atlas

Everything this guide has drawn from the record, kept the way a survey atlas keeps its figures — nineteen numbered plates, 17 of them struck so far, each listed here with the page it works on.

  1. PLATE I — THE CORE SAMPLEThe whole dated record as one drill core — 485 years on a brushable strip, dense years reading as thicker strata.In place on the timeline →
  2. PLATE II — THE BRAIDEight long arguments braided over 250 years — strands swelling at beats, knotting at pivots, pinching where two threads hold one fact.In place on the threads, drawn →
  3. PLATE III — THE LOOMThe whole record woven around the city — every derived connection a bundled ribbon on the district wheel.In place on The Loom →
  4. PLATE IV — THE LEDGERThe graph as Banktown would keep it: a ruled, seriated matrix of stamped, counted connections.In place on The Ledger →
  5. PLATE V — THE NESTThe guide's coverage as a honeycomb — one comb per district, one hex for every five places, the drives detached at the edges.In place on the neighborhoods, from the top →
  6. PLATE VI — THE TIMETABLEThe Blue Line's whole service day as a Marey graph — every scheduled run a diagonal, live trains as gilt dots riding them.In place on the Blue Line ride →
  7. PLATE VII — THE CATAWBAThe record's attention as a streamgraph — seven lens families widening and narrowing down the decades.In place on the history pillar →
  8. PLATE VIII — THE ASSAYThe whole bibliography weighed at once — every cited domain sized by how often the guide leans on it.In place on the colophon →
  9. PLATE IX — THE SLUICEThe 677-fact corpus washed through four gates — era, lens family, importance, confidence — every ribbon a counted flow.In place on the colophon, with the Assay →
  10. PLATE X — THE ALMANACThe whole year as one wheel — every dated event an arc at its window, dashed where the dates are still TBA, the bird year turning underneath.In place on the events calendar →
  11. PLATE XI — THE TRESTLEBoth rail spines as one arc diagram — stations in true order, the tours arcing above, the walkshed below.In place on the lines index →
  12. PLATE XII — THE REGISTEREvery published place as one compressed table row — the plate that is a table, honest em-dashes where the record is silent.In place on every place, A–Z →
  13. PLATE XIII — THE WARPThe same eight threads as warp and their 328 cited facts as weft — the fabric reading of the record, heavier where two threads share.In place on the threads, drawn (warp view) →
  14. PLATE XIV — THE ROUNDHOUSEDistricts against categories as a chord diagram — ribbons sized by what each neighborhood actually holds.In place on the neighborhoods →
  15. PLATE XV — HOLDINGS SUNBURSTThe whole directory in two rings — districts inside, categories out, every wedge a door into the columns.In place on the City Directory →
  16. PLATE XVI — THE VEINnot yet struck
  17. PLATE XVII — BIRD RIDGELINESeventy-three species, twelve months — each bird's year in Charlotte drawn as a ridgeline of presence.In place on the Bird List →
  18. PLATE XVIII — TOUR STRIPSOne plate, thirteen impressions — every tour as a strip of beads, spaced the way the walking is.In place on the brewery crawl, its representative impression →
  19. PLATE XIX — BENTO MICRO-VIZnot yet struck