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Great City Maps

Author : DK
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241287392

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Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities around the globe. Dive into the detail of each beautiful map and learn about interesting features with visual tours of the maps' highlights - such as the Old London Bridge of London in 1572 and the orchards of Brooklyn in 1767 New York. Cities are centres of civilisation and the way their maps portray them reflects their politics, religion, and culture. See how certain cities, and cartographic techniques, changed over time. More than just a bird's-eye-view, this unputdownable book tells the tales behind the cities from the hubs of ancient peoples to modern mega-cities, and profiles the iconic cartographers and artists who created each map. Perfect for history, geography, and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.

Great City Maps

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241238986

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Great City Maps

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781465459060

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Great City Maps by DK Pdf

Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities around the globe. Dive into the details of each beautiful map and learn about interesting features with visual tours of the maps' highlights - such as the Old London Bridge of London in 1572 and the orchards of Brooklyn in 1767 New York. Cities are centers of civilization and the way their maps portray them reflects their politics, religion, and culture. See how certain cities, and cartographic techniques, changed over time. More than just a bird's-eye view, this irresistible book tells the tales behind the cities from the hubs of ancient peoples to modern mega-cities, and profiles the iconic cartographers and artists who created each map. Perfect for history, geography, and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.

Great City Plans

Author : Kevin J. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8854415189

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Great City Plans by Kevin J. Brown Pdf

How did our most renowned cities grow into the metropolises we know today? This unique cartography book looks at the city plan from the Renaissance until modern times. It surveys the city during the Enlightenment, Colonialism, and Industrial Revolution; explores Asian and frontier cities; looks at the administrative city plan; and presents the modern pictorial city map. Descriptions provide historical, political, social, and/or economic context, and biographies of the cartographers highlight their contributions.

London

Author : Peter Barber,Roger Cline,Ann Saunders
Publisher : British Library
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0902087606

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London by Peter Barber,Roger Cline,Ann Saunders Pdf

Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation. Side-by-side with the great, semi-official but sanitised images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts - actual and envisaged - which perhaps present a more truthful picture. But the maps and panoramas are far more than topographical records. They all have something unique to say about them concerns, assumptions, ambitions and prejudices of Londoners at the time when they were created. The book reveals the 'inside story' behind one of the world's greatest cities.

Great Cities

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780744053883

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Great Cities by DK Pdf

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world’s most important cities. This illustrated history book provides a fascinating insight into the events, movements, and people throughout history who have shaped the cities where we live. Written in a “biography” format, it offers a rich historical overview of each featured city, brought to vivid life with beautiful imagery. Inside the pages of this visual guide, discover: • The story behind each city — how it was established, critical moments in its development and why it is considered historically significant. • The different types of cities, from the centers of ancient and lost civilizations and great river cities to planned cities and modern metropolises. • Beautiful illustrations with large-scale reproductions of paintings, photographs, maps and other artifacts. • Stunning images of city life and key moments in history are complemented by close-ups of revealing details and feature panels that provide additional context. From the ancient to the modern, get under the skin of what made cities like Persepolis, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Dubai tick. This lavish book is about more than history — it explores the art, architecture, commerce and politics of the great civilizations throughout history. Great Cities provides a unique window into how cities have become markers of human progress. Explore which ancient civilization founded the precursor to Mexico City, why Venice was the gateway to the East, what the Belle Epoque was and which city was the first to build sewers. It’s the perfect gift for armchair explorers interested in history, geography and the arts.

Four Great Cities

Author : Margaret Lysecki
Publisher : Longman
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0582841356

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Four Great Cities Then and Now is an Information text covering History and Geography themes for Year 5. It is part of Four Corners, the most visually compelling series of cross-curricular books to motivate all readers from 4 to 11.

Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Author : Ingrid Baumgärtner,Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby,Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110587418

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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period by Ingrid Baumgärtner,Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby,Katrin Kogman-Appel Pdf

The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

Comparative Urban Design

Author : Melville Campbell Branch,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher : New York : Arno Press Incorporated ; Los Angeles : University of Southern California Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 040510524X

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Comparative Urban Design by Melville Campbell Branch,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) Pdf

Great Maps

Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780241186756

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Great Maps by Jerry Brotton Pdf

Great Maps takes a close look at the history of maps, from ancient maps such as medieval mappae mundi to Google Earth. Why do we put north at the top of maps? Which maps show us the way to Heaven, and which show the "land of no sunshine" or the land of "people with no bowels"? In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Maps are not just geographical data: they reflect a particular ideological, historical, or cultural context. Providing a unique insight into how mapmakers have used maps to shape and depict their world view, this beautifully illustrated book traces the development of human development and culture through its maps. From the earliest rock carvings to the latest geospatial technology, from ancient medieval mappae mundi to the first road atlas, Great Maps explores in stunning photographic detail how maps have influenced and reflected our world throughout history.

Complete Handy Atlas of the World and City Guide

Author : Matthews-Northrup Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Atlases
ISBN : NYPL:33433000557904

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Rider's New York City and Vicinity, Including Newark, Yorkers and Jersey City

Author : Fremont Rider
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1333899475

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Rider's New York City and Vicinity, Including Newark, Yorkers and Jersey City by Fremont Rider Pdf

Excerpt from Rider's New York City and Vicinity, Including Newark, Yorkers and Jersey City: A Guide-Book for Travelers, With 16 Maps and 18 Plans The desirability of a comprehensive guide book for what is unquestionably the greatest city in the western hemisphere and in many respects the greatest city in the world is so evident that no excuse for attempting its 'preparation seems necessary. Neither does apology seem necessary for taking the admirable Baedeker series for model. That portion of Baedeker's United States covering New York has been perhaps our most thorough guide book treatment of the metropolis, and this despite the fact that it sought to do in sixty pages what in the case of Paris and London had taken four or five hundred pages. Where divergence has been made from the well-known Baedeker style and format, it is hoped that the innovations may be found to be improve ments. No great city on earth is in so constant and rapid a state of ux as New York. A guide book to Rome may stand Without revision for a dozen years or a score of years with tolerable complacency. A New York guide book half as old would be most annoyingly out of date. During the three years that this present volume has been in active preparation, some parts of it have, because of changes, been rewritten and actually reset three times, while other changes in the text have occurred literally on every page, up to the moment of closing forms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Upper Left Cities

Author : Hunter Shobe,David Banis
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781632171825

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Upper Left Cities by Hunter Shobe,David Banis Pdf

Compare and contrast San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle through 150 innovative infographic maps that blend traditional cartography with modern graphic design. Upper Left Cities redefines modern cartography by going into uncharted territory to create a narrative about three great cities through informative and detailed infographic maps. Explore and compare San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle through: • wildlife and city trails • voting records • commutes • marathon routes • food and drink patterns From the team that brought you Portlandness, this cultural atlas includes more than 150 maps, each using data around a given topic and then translating that to a creative and often unexpected visual format. The result is a perfect blend of form and function, each map is meticulously and ingeniously designed. The collection of maps cover: • history • geography • social and economic issues • pop culture

Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin

Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874176407

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Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin by Richard V. Francaviglia Pdf

The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to Euro-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin gradually emerged from its “cartographic silence” as terra incognita and how this fascinating process both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia’s interdisciplinary account of the mapping of the Great Basin combines a chronicle of the exploration of the region with a history of the art and science of cartography and of the political, economic, and cultural contexts in which maps are created. It also offers a compelling, wide-ranging discussion that combines a description of the daunting physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination of the ways humans, from early Native Americans to nineteenth-century surveyors to twentieth-century highway and air travelers, have understood, defined, and organized this space, psychologically and through the medium of maps. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin continues Francaviglia’s insightful, richly nuanced meditation on the Great Basin landscape that began in Believing in Place.

Explore New York

Author : Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher : 12-Story Library
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1632358379

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Explore New York by Alicia Z. Klepeis Pdf

A lively introduction to the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, home to the Empire State Building, Central Park, and the New York Yankees. Each chapter features attention-grabbing photos, colorful details, and fascinating facts. Sidebars go beyond the basics, and prompts invite readers to think for themselves. Includes a timeline of major events, a page of Fun Facts, and maps showing New York City's location in its country and the world.