The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique, and Invention 2

1. One especially important aspect for Arnheim's concept is that the concept is generative.  Corner often discusses mapping in generative terms.  For example, he claims that mapping is an "enabling enterprise that both reveals and realizes hidden potential."  What similarities do Arnheim's concept and Corner's mapping share?  What differentiates them?
2. More people in the world interact with Google Maps more regularly than any other map.  Corner argues that maps "possess great force in terms of how people see and act."  How do you think Google Maps has forced people to see and act?  Positively?  Negatively?  At all?
3. Corner looks to Harvey and agrees that "projecting new urban and regional futures must derive less from a utopia of form and more from a utopia of process - how things work, interact and inter-relate in space and time."  I believe that the map feature on Snapchat begins to achieve this in a fascinating way.  Am I right or am I crazy?
4. I think corner tries to place mapping somewhere between free-form subjectivity and and raw factual objectivity.  Is he successful?  Can there be a balance or does the presence of one begin to implicate or diminish the other?
5. Corner paints a grim picture of what I might call "red tape culture."  He claims there are plenty of answers to the question of what to do to address the issues of today and very few answers to the question of how to do it.  Do you think that Corner's mapping stands to be the operational factor that address the how?