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VanDam's best-selling Havana StreetSmart maps all of the capital's cultural attractions, neighborhoods, beaches, hotels, resorts and more at an immensely legible scale. The map features the latest restaurants, hotels, bars and supper clubs all clearly marked. This is the smartest and easiest to use map of Havana. Remember web access in Cuba is limited to hotels, excruciatingly slow and up-to-date information simply unavailable. So, let Havana StreetSmart be your key to understanding the new world's oldest city. This sexy laminated city map package refolds easily to 4 x 9 inches (24 x 9 inches open) and snuggly fits into your pocket. Buy this map to become an instant StreetSmart Habanero.
- Sales Rank: #23378 in Books
- Published on: 2016-03-01
- Format: Folded Map
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 4.00" w x 24.00" l,
- Binding: Map
- 2 pages
Review
"A New Look at Cuba" by Rachel Lee Harris You ve booked a flight from Miami and have your approved travel visa in hand. You re ready to see Cuba. Now what? Cue Stephan VanDam, a cartographer, graphic designer and president of the map company that bears his name. Though practical, his witty, origami-like physical maps and sleek 4-D interactive digital maps can also carve a historic or cultural path through a city (like his History Mapped presidential series). The company has now turned its attention to Cuba. Using his signature StreetSmart series design for printed maps (Internet connections are still scant in Cuba), Mr. VanDam points out Havana s restaurants, hotels, resorts and the home-based restaurants known as paladares and offers five self-guided tours that wind through the city s many plazas to contemporary galleries, music venues and gardens, along the Malecón coastal road and as far as the beaches of Playas de Este. As an amateur mambo dancer and Latin Jazz aficionado, Mr. VanDam has always had a fascination with Cuba and its connection to the Latin jazz scene in New York, he said on the phone from his office there. Musically, it's a world power. I remember my parents doing the mambo in the 1950s and their parents in the 30s. So the maps focus a lot on those aspects of Cuba s culture. It s also a treasure trove of architecture, he said. Cuba is totally cohesive in its urban fabric since there was no money after the revolution to replace buildings with modern structures. The company also has produced StreetSmart Cuba, which maps out the network of Spanish Colonial towns and Unesco World Heritage sites on country roads from west to east, and guides travelers through beach towns along the shores both north and south. The Havana map is $8.95, the Cuba map $9.95 --The New York Times, Travel
"In Cuba, Maps Make a Comeback" by Steve Heller Old-fashioned navigation is enjoying a renaissance on the island, where Internet access is still scant. When Stephan Van Dam began designing two detailed tourist maps of Cuba in 2014, he couldn t have known that one year later, the prospect of renewed relations between the country and the U.S. could effectively create a whole new market for them. At the time Van Dam, the founder of VanDam s StreetSmart maps, was catering to a smaller audience: the Americans who could only visit the country if they were Cuban-American or embarking on a people-to-people tour run by a licensed guide, and the 1.1 million Canadians and hundreds of thousands of European travelers who visited last year. In 2015, the country offers jaded American travelers something different from the usual tourist trappings. According to Van Dam, the country is experiencing a brief moment free of advertising before global corporate luxe flattens the island. With highly legible cartography and engaging photographic covers, his StreetSmart Cuba and StreetSmart Havana maps highlight local business colorfully. They're guides to the latest hotels, resorts, restaurants and paladares (private family-run restaurants) that appeal to the pioneering tourist eager to experience the country before the inevitable onslaught of development. Van Dam s Cuban maps culled their information from both federal data and his team s personal experience. The relief and terrain data come courtesy of the CIA; the cultural and urban information was provided by Havana s Office of the City Historian; the restaurant and paladares recommendations from his team s ground trothing and testing, as well as recommendations by Cubans and American friends. Walking Havana from one end to the other gave Van Dam a sense of the urban fabric, which is, by his description, frozen in time and brimming with period-specific architectural jewels buildings that reflect Plateresque, Cuban baroque, Neoclassical, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, Mid-century modern, and Soviet Brutalist architectures. Cuba, he says, "avoided the 1960s Corbusian redevelopment schemes that destroyed so many world cities throughout the Americas." To develop the maps, Van Dam and his team visited Cuba in 2013 under a U.S. self-certification program administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control that permits U.S. citizens to travel to Cuba independently to conduct research. With the prospect of sanctions being lifted in the near future, Van Dam is already planning more Cuba projects across new media, starting with a website mapping the influence of the clave, an instrument that figures widely in Cuban music, around the world. The paper map may be old-fashioned, but when it comes to Cuba, Van Dam is ahead of the curve. Havana is currently a dark spot on Google Street Maps, and Google hasn't yet released a statement saying when the company will upgrade its coverage. Even if Street Maps did work there, though, there are no guarantees it would have very many users in the near future. With Internet coverage at a scant 5 percent across the country and download speeds reminiscent of the pre-dial-up era, Cuba doesn t yet have the digital infrastructure to support cell phone cartography. Which leaves room for a handy paper copy renaissance: This is a fleeting moment, Van Damm notes, when the trusty laminated map trumps Google views. --The Atlantic Magazine
Top 10 what to take to Cuba 1_USB Flash Drives 2_Kleenex 3_VanDam Havana StreetSmart Maps. Unlike most other cities you visit in the world, Cuba does not operate with GPS. You ll have to get accustomed to good, old fashioned laminated paper maps and just pen your fav spots. A map we recommend is VanDam StreetSmartHavana. 4_Cash 6_Toothpaste 10_Nutella --Meet The New Cuba Blog
About the Author
Stephan Van Dam, AIGA is an award-winning cartographer, graphic designer, and information architect. He is the president, principal and creative director of New York-based VanDam Publishing. Twenty-seven of his maps are in the MoMA Collection. The universal power of maps has been his guiding passion for the past 25 years and fuels his desire to tell stories and construct new realities through maps in all media. He's has mapped over 85 world cities, and holds several patents in the field of paper engineering and origami map folding. His work has been honored by the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the editors of ID magazine and has been featured on national television and been sighted in numerous feature films.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Don't Waist Your time with any other map! This is IT!!!!
By J. Asion
I am Cuban American, I left when I was 12 years old, I have my family in Cuba so I travel as often as possible....I found the Havana Streetsmart map by Van Dam to be THE most helpful travel tool of ALL of the guide books that I have bought, almost every time I go time. It was so Clear and so easy to have on your body as you travel! I am glad to share this, it will be the last tool I will ever need while in Cuba! Bravo!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Dreaming about my return to Cuba
By jessica Walker Beaumont
This timely release of a Cuba map by VanDam Maps made famous for its NYC popup maps has me dreaming and ready to return before all that I loved about the country is destroyed by US cruise ships and McDonalds. I got a copy of the map when I heard about Obama's move to open up travel to Cuba and it has triggered vivid memories of month-long stay in the country back in 1996. I took part in a photography exchange that had me wandering the streets of old Havana and road tripping across the entire country to Santiago de Cuba. The map is laminated, easy to read and holds all the essential information needed for my return. I can't think of a better place for my four-year-old son's first abroad experience. This is giving me a serious travel bug!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
and I have never seen a better line of readable
By Ross K
Van Dam's NY map was the first and only map I bought when I found myself on Manhattan for the first time, and I have never seen a better line of readable, accurate, straightforward as well as durable maps. I work in purchasing for a wholesaler in the business, and have seen, used, bought and sold my share of maps over the years. This new title is clearly another winner, and its appearance only weeks after the door to Cuba began to slowly creak open displays savvy on Van Dam's part of having the right product at the right time. I'll go myself when the entrance eases up a bit, and this will be in my hand..
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