H. Fullard · 1972
H. Fullard reviews the first instalment of Atlas du Luxembourg, listed as a 1970 publication with 42 maps prepared by Nottingham University's geography department in collaboration with Luxembourg experts. Its six sections cover history, physical conditions, administrative divisions, demography, economic activities and social services. Folio numbering accommodates later additions, and facing pages list sources and occasional comments. The mainly 1960s data provide a baseline for comparison with planned maps based on the census of 31 December 1970. Most maps are black-only, with selective use of colour. Fullard praises the wealth of information and the international collaboration, but criticizes mismatches between stated and actual map scales and the quality and stylistic consistency of lettering.
Valeria Alexandrescu · 1973
The review describes the first fascicle of Atlas du Luxembourg, published by the Ministry of National Education in 1971 while the atlas remained in preparation. It places the project within the national-atlas initiative promoted by the International Geographical Union's Commission on National Atlases. The fascicle contains 101 maps and 12 diagrams in six chapters, using the Gauss projection and principally scales of 1:200,000, 1:300,000 and 1:400,000. Its 40 × 50 cm format places maps on right-hand pages and titles, scales and sources on the left. Coverage includes history and language boundaries, physical geography, administrative divisions, population, economic activities and social services. Historical material includes a tracing-paper city plan that can be superimposed on Luxembourg's former fortifications. The reviewer praises the suitability of areal, dot and cartodiagram methods for population themes. The economic section contains 50 maps and diagrams, with particular attention to ironworking from 1600 to 1969, industrial change, and river transport through the Moselle and Mertert port. The reviewer finds that the fascicle presents a multifaceted account of Luxembourg's territory, population and economy, including postwar economic changes, and anticipates more detailed coverage as further plates appear.
L. J. Jay · 1973
L. J. Jay reviews Atlas du Luxembourg, listed as published by Luxembourg's Board of National Education in 1971 and prepared by the University of Nottingham's Department of Geography with Luxembourg geographers. Jay welcomes its detailed coverage of a country inadequately represented in Benelux atlases. The first instalment contains 42 sheets measuring 40 × 50 cm, with about 70 planned; screw binding allows supplementary sheets to be inserted. Six sections cover historical, physical, administrative, demographic, economic and social topics. Full-colour relief and geology maps use 1:200,000, while most climate, population and economic-resource maps use 1:400,000, allowing four maps per sheet and encouraging comparison. Jay highlights southwestern industrial-belt population growth between 1870 and 1910 and its distinctive age and foreign-resident composition, and praises the atlas's depiction of regional economic resources and post-war changes.
