Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Churchman or merchant, soldier or sanitary engineer, everyone who lives in a city sees it differently. Envisioning the City explores how these points of urban view have been expressed in city plans. Ranging from vertical plans to bird's-eye views, profiles, and three-dimensional models, these diverse maps all show cities "the way people want to see them."Whether a Chinese vertical city plan from the first millennium B.C. or a bird's-eye view appended to a fifteenth-century edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the type of plan chosen and its focus reflected the aspects of...
ISBN(s)
0226079937, 9780226079936
