Envisioning the city : six studies in urban cartography / edited by David Buisseret.

Title & Author:

Envisioning the city : six studies in urban cartography / edited by David Buisseret.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

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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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226079937 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226079936 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns Maps.
Villes Cartes.
74.31 history of cartography.
Cities and towns.
Steden.
Kaarten (vorm)
Cities and towns Maps History.
Urban geography.
Cities and towns History.

Form/genre:

Maps.
Maps (form)
History (form)
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

Buisseret, David.
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 201638
Call No.: G140 .E5 1998
Status: Available

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