Richmond City Map Poster

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Richmond map poster

Richmond is a city shaped by its river. The James runs through the middle of town, broken by rocks and rapids that bring whitewater within sight of downtown, and the streets grew up along its northern bank and spread outward from there. This poster renders Richmond, Virginia as a street map in the Blackline style, a clean, graphic treatment that lets the pattern of the city do the talking.

People who know Richmond tend to know it block by block. There is the long, tree-lined stretch of Monument Avenue, the old brick of Shockoe Bottom and Church Hill, the rowhouses and porches of the Fan, the campus energy around VCU, and the trails and islands along the river where the city slips quickly into woods and water. A street map gathers all of that into a single view, a way to see how those places fit together and how the grid bends where the river and the hills ask it to.

As a piece of decorative art, it suits a home or office belonging to someone who grew up in Richmond, went to school there, moved away and misses it, or recently arrived and wants to get to know the place. It also makes a thoughtful gift for a housewarming, a graduation, or a farewell. The Blackline style keeps the look restrained, so it sits comfortably alongside other prints, photographs, or a gallery wall, and works in modern or traditional rooms alike.

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Location

Virginia, United States

Collection

Cityscapes