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1. Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry: Introduction to an Emerging Field of Practice Nancy Duxbury, W. F. Garrett-Petts and David MacLennan Part I: Mapping the Contours of an Emerging Field 2. Cultural Mapping and Planning for Sustainable Communities Graeme Evans 3. One Strategy, Many Purposes: A Classification for Cultural Mapping Projects Leonardo Chiesi and Paolo Costa 4. Cultural Mapping: Analyzing Its Meanings in Policy Documents Eleonora Redaelli 5. Cultural Mapping in Ontario: The Big Picture M. Sharon Jeannotte Part II: Platforms for Engagement and Knowledge Through Mapping 6. Wedjemup Wangkiny Koora, Yeye and Mila Boorda (Wedjemup Talking from the Past, Today, and the Future): An Ex-Modern Way of Thinking and Mapping Landscape into Country? Len Collard and Grant Revell 7. Understanding the Full Impact of Cultural Mapping in Ukraine Linda Knudsen McAusland and Olha Kotska 8. Engaging Public, Professionals, and Policy-Makers in the Mapping Process Janet Pillai 9. Mapping Cultures: Spatial Anthropology and Popular Cultural Memory Les Roberts and Sara Cohen 10. "Reading the City": Cultural Mapping as Pedagogic Inquiry Stuart Burch 11. City Readings and Urban Mappings: The City as Didactic Instrument Paulo Providencia Part III: Inquiry, Expression, and Deepening Understanding of Place 12. Time, Aggregation, and Analysis: Designing Effective Digital Cultural Mapping Projects Elaine Sullivan and Willeke Wendrich 13. Beyond Paper Maps: Archeologies of Place Abby Suckle and Seetha Raghupathy 14. Mapping the Complexity of Creative Practice: Using Cognitive Maps to Follow Creative Ideas and Collaborations Roberta Comunian and Katerina Alexiou 15. From Work to Play: Making Bodies in Flight's Performance Walk Dream-->work Sara Giddens and Simon Jones 16. Maraya as Visual Research: Mapping Urban Displacement and Narrating Artistic Inquiry Glen Lowry, M. Simon Levin and Henry Tsang (Maraya) 17. Beyond the Brochure: An Unmapped Journey into Deep Mapping Kathleen Scherf

This chapter presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping. It offers a range of interdisciplinary views that are international in scope. Cultural mapping, broadly conceived, promises new ways of describing, accounting for, and coming to terms with the cultural resources of communities and places. The evolution of cultural mapping intertwines academic and artistic research with policy, planning, and advocacy imperatives and contexts. Five main trajectories of cultural mapping practice or "use-contexts" have influenced its current methodological contours and practices: community empowerment and counter-mapping, cultural policy, municipal governance, mapping as artistic practice, and academic inquiry. The practice of cultural mapping with Indigenous peoples is generally dated to the 1960s in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic. Mapping has long informed the work of artists, particularly those involved in public works and socially engaged art practices.