London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically(...)
London: a history in maps
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Over the past two thousand years London has developed from a small town into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book charts that growth and the city's transformation through hundreds of maps culled from the collection of the British Library's Map Library. Including official documents, individual endeavors, hand-drawn renditions, and technologically advanced replicas, these maps represent a variety of perspectives. Utilitarian maps show the city as it is and serve to elucidate its inner workings, while carefully wrought plans show the city as it was envisioned. This book reveals the inside story of the creation, growth, and change of London.
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
Dessins d'architecture, du Moyen-Âge au XIXe siècle
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Les illustrations de cet ouvrage entraînent les lecteurs du Moyen Âge au XIXe siècle, sur les traces des bâtisseurs, architectes, décorateurs, utopistes ou simples témoins d'un passé dont ne subsistent parfois que des ruines. Ils ont pour noms Villard de Honnecourt, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Etienne Dupérac, Palladio, le Bernin, Borromini, Viollet-le-Duc, entre autres.
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Cette fascinante et époustouflante collection comprend, entre autres, l'un des plus ancien plans connus de Manhattan, ainsi qu'un plan détaillé de Central Park, une carte topographique de l'île de Manhattan, un ancien plan de métro. des vues de Brooklyn et de Queens et bien d'autres encore. Des données sur l'impression, ainsi que d'autres dates et faits historiques(...)
novembre 2010
New York: Cartes et vues historiques de New York
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Cette fascinante et époustouflante collection comprend, entre autres, l'un des plus ancien plans connus de Manhattan, ainsi qu'un plan détaillé de Central Park, une carte topographique de l'île de Manhattan, un ancien plan de métro. des vues de Brooklyn et de Queens et bien d'autres encore. Des données sur l'impression, ainsi que d'autres dates et faits historiques importants sont fournis par les descriptions des cartes. L'excellent procédé technique de reproduction confère à toutes les cartes des couleurs brillantes et des détails aux contours précis.
Atlas of remote islands
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There are still places on earth that are unknown. This publication captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its(...)
Atlas of remote islands
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There are still places on earth that are unknown. This publication captures fifty islands that are far away in every sense-from the mainland, from people, from airports, and from holiday brochures. Author Judith Schalansky used historic events and scientific reports as a springboard for each island, providing information on its distance from the mainland, whether its inhabited, its features, and the stories that have shaped its lore.
Denis Wood: Everything sings
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With artful wit and rigor, cartographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers not only to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies, but also to our own very human instinct to understand where we live by mapmaking. At the heart of Wood's investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan(...)
Denis Wood: Everything sings
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With artful wit and rigor, cartographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers not only to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies, but also to our own very human instinct to understand where we live by mapmaking. At the heart of Wood's investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan Heights maps, begun in 1982, and now published in Everything Sings. Surveying his century-old, half-square mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood began by paring away the inessential "map crap" (scale, orientation, street grids) and, in searching for the revelatory in the unmapped and the unmappable, he ended up plotting such phenomena as radio waves permeating the air, the light cast by street lights and Halloween pumpkins on porches. Wood's maps accumulate into a multi-layered story about one neighborhood that tells the larger story of what constitutes the places we call home. With an introduction by Ira Glass.
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into(...)
Morphologie: city metaphors
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First published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' ''City metaphors'' juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title- a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword, “Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind.” A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, ''City metaphors'' is also an experiment in conscious vision-building.
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Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and global environmental change. This publication combines recent thinking on human geography and architecture on global environmental change issues, setting out to develop a reinterpretation of(...)
février 2012
Atlas: geography, architecture and change in an independent world
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Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World helps readers find their way through the practical and ethical challenges presented by globalisation and global environmental change. This publication combines recent thinking on human geography and architecture on global environmental change issues, setting out to develop a reinterpretation of cartography and a reframing of sustainability. The aim is to find a re-drawing of the earth and the making of new maps. With a focus on the growth and remaking of cities it offers an innovative mix of essays and shorter texts, original artworks and distinctive re-mappings. The Atlas arises out of a collaboration between scholars and practitioners from architecture and human geography.
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In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea—that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community. In Disease Maps, Tom Koch(...)
Disease maps: epidemics on the ground
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In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea—that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the swine flu pandemic caused worldwide panic and sent shockwaves through the medical community. In Disease Maps, Tom Koch contends that to understand epidemics and their history we need to think about maps of varying scale, from the individual body to shared symptoms evidenced across cities, nations, and the world. Disease Maps begins with a brief review of epidemic mapping today and a detailed example of its power. Koch then traces the early history of medical cartography, including pandemics such as European plague and yellow fever, and the advancements in anatomy, printing, and world atlases that paved the way for their mapping. Moving on to the scourge of the nineteenth century—cholera—Koch considers the many choleras argued into existence by the maps of the day, including a new perspective on John Snow’s science and legacy. Finally, Koch addresses contemporary outbreaks such as AIDS, cancer, and H1N1, and reaches into the future, toward the coming epidemics.
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Pour ce quatrième volume de la collection, Travis Elborough a repris la route en quête de lieux disparus, évanouis, volatilisés – en tout ou parties. On le suit classiquement à Alexandrie, Tombouctou ou Venise, mais aussi sur les pentes des glaciers du Montana, sur les rives du Danube, le long de la rivière souterraine de Londres, jusqu’aux confins de l’Inde, de la Libye,(...)
septembre 2022
Atlas des lieux disparus : À la découverte des vestiges du monde
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Pour ce quatrième volume de la collection, Travis Elborough a repris la route en quête de lieux disparus, évanouis, volatilisés – en tout ou parties. On le suit classiquement à Alexandrie, Tombouctou ou Venise, mais aussi sur les pentes des glaciers du Montana, sur les rives du Danube, le long de la rivière souterraine de Londres, jusqu’aux confins de l’Inde, de la Libye, de la Colombie, de la Chine ou de la Jamaïque. Chemin faisant, il redonne aux lieux visités leur visage d’antan. Photographies et cartes – signées Martin Brown – révèlent alors les merveilles du passé et les comparent aux vestiges du présent.
L'île aux démons
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L'île aux Démons, la mer de Verrazano, les cités de Norumbega et de Cibola ou encore le lac de Conibas ont ceci en commun : ils n'existent pas. Pourtant, ces lieux ont longtemps été représentés sur les cartes géographiques de l'Amérique du Nord et décrits dans les textes qui les accompagnent. Comment ces mirages cartographiques ont-il pu apparaître et persister aussi(...)
L'île aux démons
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L'île aux Démons, la mer de Verrazano, les cités de Norumbega et de Cibola ou encore le lac de Conibas ont ceci en commun : ils n'existent pas. Pourtant, ces lieux ont longtemps été représentés sur les cartes géographiques de l'Amérique du Nord et décrits dans les textes qui les accompagnent. Comment ces mirages cartographiques ont-il pu apparaître et persister aussi longtemps? Alban Berson, cartothécaire à Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, nous conduit dans l'atelier d'un graveur vénitien, dans la mâture d'une caraque normande d'où un marin fourbu aperçoit une promesse, dans le sillage funeste d'un conquistador, près d'un village autochtone où un homme trace pour la première fois sur du papier l'image qu'il se fait de son monde.