36.1627°N / 86.7816°W · United States
One hundred and sixty-five lots of one acre each: that was the whole of Nashville when it was drawn in 1784. The town took the bluff at the foot of a great curve of the Cumberland rather than the land inside it, and the curve is still the first thing the sheet shows.
You choose the framing, the palette and the words of the caption. The work is drawn from real data, then printed to order in the workshop closest to you.
The Cumberland draws a horseshoe across the upper half of the sheet. It enters from the right, climbs north past the centre, sweeps west along the top and comes down again at the left edge. Downtown sits at the right-hand foot of the horseshoe, on the west bank: a small, tight grid whose streets run parallel and perpendicular to the river. Around it, a ring of motorways closes almost completely, the heaviest strokes of the drawing; beyond the ring, the streets lose that order and spread out in every direction.
Inside the horseshoe lie the neighbourhoods of North Nashville, with a few ponds near the top of the curve. Green comes in many small patches rather than one great park: along the upper edge, through the southern neighbourhoods, and at Centennial Park, south-west of downtown. The first public square, on the bluff above the river, is a small green rectangle when you come closer; at this scale it is barely a dot. The rail lines converging on downtown are drawn too pale to read.
Water is a single band here, but a long one: the horseshoe runs from edge to edge. Give it an ink that stands clear of the dense streets on both banks. Green is plentiful and scattered, small patches all over the sheet rather than one great park; a light tint keeps them as texture, a stronger one turns the sheet into a mosaic. The motorway ring needs nothing more than the darkest line of the palette: after the river, it is already the boldest figure.
Portrait, centred a little north-west of the engraved point so that the whole horseshoe fits, from its two feet to the top of its curve. Downtown then sits right of centre, Centennial Park below and to the left. The neighbourhoods far to the east, across the river, stay outside, and so does Shelby Park. Come closer and the square and the grid sharpen, but the horseshoe breaks at the left edge.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. On a sheet held by a horseshoe of river, the caption can say where you stood within it: a street inside the curve, a corner downtown, the bank across the water.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is not in the catalogue, but you will find it in the palette library, filed under its material.
Opens the colour workshop with these 16 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
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The surveyor Thomas Molloy drew the plan in 1784: a rectangular grid of 165 one-acre lots, with eight parallel north-south streets set at right angles to the town’s three thoroughfares. He placed the public square at the eastern edge of the grid, on a bluff overlooking the river. That grid is the tight weave at the foot of the horseshoe, with the river along its eastern side.
In the 1970s a parking lot took the place of the original square. It was removed in 2007, and the five-acre Public Square Park now occupies the site Molloy had chosen. Come closer in the configurator and it appears: a green rectangle on the bluff, at the eastern edge of the grid, a few steps from the water.
In 1897 a site west of the town was chosen for the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. When the exposition closed, the site became Centennial Park. It is the green patch south-west of downtown on the sheet; closer in, its lake appears at the heart of it.
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A map of Nashville does not need its skyline to be recognised: the curve of the river is enough. Write the name of your street underneath, and it becomes a map of your Nashville.
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