Metropolis : mapping the city / Jeremy Black ; contributing editor Christopher Westhorp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.

Contributor:

Westhorp, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Maps.

Cities and towns.

Metropolitan areas--Maps.

Metropolitan areas.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Summary:

The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was published by Braun and Hogenburg in 1572 for the armchair traveller interested in a world that was opening up around him. Since then our fascination with foreign cities has not abated. This sumptuous volume looks at the development of the mapping and representation of the city revealing how we organize the urban space. From skyline profiles, bird's eye views and panoramas, to the schematic maps of transport networks and road layouts to help us navigate, and statistical maps that can provide information on human aspirations, cities can reveal themselves in many ways. Focusing on key points in the development of urban representation and including visions of the future of how we would be living today, this enlightening book illustrates some of the oldest, youngest, liveliest, and most contested cities in the world.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The first civilisations

Commerce and conflict

Cities - a global phenomenon

Centres of importance

Technology and meaning

Places of transformation

Case Study: Tenochtitlán: causeway city

ch. 1. The Renaissance City: 1450-1600

The West emerges

Enterprise and technology

New perspectives, new precision

Pictures and forms

Case Study: Venice: jewel in the lagoon

Case Study: Constantinople: where West encounters East

ch. 2. New Horizons, New Worlds: 1600-1700

New world settlements

Urban developments

Cities and states

Planning Paris and London

Case Study: Amsterdam: the canal ring city

ch. 3. An Imperial Age: 1700-1800

Urban and economic growth

Places of power

New cities for the new world

Centres of trade and cosmopolitanism

Maps and realities

Case Study: Edinburgh: a city of two towns

ch. 4. Hotbeds Of Innovation 1800-1900

Industries and populations

Transportation arteries

The infrastructure of improvement

Cartography and technology

An age of information

A world of changing cities

Case Study: mapping society: a scientific era

ch. 5. A Global Era

A worldwide trend

Megacities

Urban concerns: from sanitation to crime

Urban and national identities

The need for residential spaces

Styles of development

Shifting centres of gravity

Changing cityscapes

New technologies

Data and discontent

Cash Study: Brasilia: a monument to modernism

ch. 6. From Print To Pixel: Into The Future

Authoritarian visions

Exemplary cityscapes

Mind maps and planning maps

Case Study: Eco-cities: green replaces grime.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781844862207

1844862208

OCLC:

900031224