Envisioning the city : six studies in urban cartography
Title:
Envisioning the city : six studies in urban cartography
Author:
Buisseret, David, editor
ISBN:
9780226079936
Physical Description:
xiii, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Series:
The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Contents:
Mapping the Chinese city : the image and the reality / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt -- Mapping the city : Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance / Naomi Miller -- Urbs and Civitas in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan -- Military architecture and cartography in the design of the early modern city / Martha Pollak -- Modeling cities in early modern Europe / David Buisseret -- The Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett : cartographic and historical perspectives /Gerald A. Danzer
Abstract:
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 from various times and places. 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." Although city plans are among the oldest maps known, few books have been devoted to them. Historians of cartography and geography, architects, and urban planners will all enjoy this profusely illustrated volume
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