Cartographic Analysis of Soviet Military City Plans

Martin Davis is based in the Research and Higher Education Division of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London. After receiving the British Cartographic Society’s inaugural Ian Mumford Award in 2015, Martin completed his PhD in Geography at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2018. He has been Editorial Assistant and Book Reviews Editor of The Cartographic Journal since 2014 and, in 2019, was appointed Executive Secretary of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Topographic Mapping.

• Russian and Soviet Cartography: A Concise History.- An Introduction to Soviet Military City Plans.- Towards an Ontogenetic Approach to Soviet Military City Plans: a Post-Representational Epistemology.- Developing an Approach to Analysing Soviet City Plans.- The Methodology.- Analysing the Symbology of Soviet Military City Plans.- Discussion.

“The book spans eight chapters richly illustrated with extracts from Soviet city plans. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in Soviet military cartography during the Cold War. … the quality of the book as an important contribution to the growing body of research on the Soviet military mapping programme during the Cold War.” (Stig Roar Svenningsen, Imago Mundi, Vol. 74 (2), 2022)