Urban Maps

Author : Richard Brook,Nick Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351876490

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Urban Maps by Richard Brook,Nick Dunn Pdf

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban territories; on surfaces, in the margins or within voids. The diverse media of arts practices as well as commercial branding are used to explore narratives that reveal latent characteristics of urban situations that conventional architectural inquiry is unable to do. The subjects covered are presented within a wider framework of urban theory into which are embedded case study examples that outline the practices, processes and interpretations of each theme. The chapters provide a contemporary reading of urban socio-cultural conditions using 'mapping' as a lens to explore and communicate the social phenomena and lived experiences of the dynamic and temporal city. Mapping is developed as a form of critical instrumentality to expose, record and contribute to the understanding of the singular essences of space, place and networks by thematic, cognitive and experiential modes of investigation.

Author : Mark Ovenden,London Transport Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Local transit
ISBN : UOM:39015066729263

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Metro Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden,London Transport Museum Pdf

Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780143128496

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Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden Pdf

A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit—including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Now expanded with thirty-six more pages, 250 city maps revised from previous editions, and listings given from almost a thousand systems in total, this is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city.

Author : Edward Ng,Chao Ren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317510529

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The Urban Climatic Map by Edward Ng,Chao Ren Pdf

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping of this phenomenon is crucial for urban planners. The book brings together experts in the field of Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art understanding on how urban climatic knowledge can be made available and utilized by urban planners. The book contains the technology, methodology, and various focuses and approaches of urban climatic map making. It illustrates this understanding with examples and case studies from around the world, and it explains how urban climatic information can be analysed, interpreted and applied in urban planning. The book attempts to bridge the gap between the science of urban climatology and the practice of urban planning. It provides a useful one-stop reference for postgraduates, academics and urban climatologists wishing to better understand the needs for urban climatic knowledge in city planning; and urban planners and policy makers interested in applying the knowledge to design future sustainable cities and quality urban spaces.

Author : June Manning Thomas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814340271

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Mapping Detroit by June Manning Thomas Pdf

One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how Detroit moved from frontier fort to thriving industrial metropolis to today’s high-vacancy city. With contributors ranging from a map archivist and a historian to architects, urban designers, and urban planners, Mapping Detroit brings a unique perspective to the historical causes, contemporary effects, and potential future of Detroit’s transformed landscape. To show how Detroit arrived in its present condition, contributors in part 1, Evolving Detroit: Past to Present, trace the city’s beginnings as an agricultural, military, and trade outpost and map both its depopulation and attempts at redevelopment. In part 2, Portions of the City, contributors delve into particular land-related systems and neighborhood characteristics that encouraged modern social and economic changes. Part 2 continues by offering case studies of two city neighborhoods—the Brightmoor area and Southwest Detroit—that are struggling to adapt to changing landscapes. In part 3, Understanding Contemporary Space and Potential, contributors consider both the city’s ecological assets and its sociological fragmentation to add dimension to the current understanding of its emptiness. The volume’s epilogue offers a synopsis of the major points of the 2012 Detroit Future City report, the city’s own strategic blueprint for future land use. Mapping Detroit explores not only what happens when a large city loses its main industrial purpose and a major portion of its population but also what future might result from such upheaval. Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit’s history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.

Author : Urban Mapping Coordination Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UIUC:30112068018297

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Urban Mapping Panel Highlights, June 2-3, 1965, Washington, D.C. by Urban Mapping Coordination Group Pdf

Author : Nadia Amoroso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136997112

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The Exposed City by Nadia Amoroso Pdf

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye – crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few. If a city was able to be defined by these characteristics, what form would it take? How could it be mapped? Nadia Amoroso tackles these questions by taking statistical urban data and exploring how they could be transformed into innovative new maps. The "unseen" elements of the city are examined in groundbreaking images throughout the book, which are complemented by interviews with Winy Maas and James Corner, comments by Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by the SENSEable City Lab group and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.

Author : T. J. Blachut,A. Chrzanowski,J. H. Saastamoinen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781461261452

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Urban Surveying and Mapping by T. J. Blachut,A. Chrzanowski,J. H. Saastamoinen Pdf

The idea of writing a textbook on urban surveying and mapping originated with the Commission on Cartography of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) because of the urgent need for planned and integrated surveying and mapping in urban communities of the American Hemisphere. It is obvious, however, that, with the exception of some European countries, the same situation exists in most cities of the world. The undersigned was asked to undertake the task. The task was not simple. The only available comprehensive text in the field 1 is Geodezja Miejska , which was published recently in Poland and reached the authors only after most of the present text was written. It is tailored to a very specific market and different requirements. Although it is an impressive book, it differs vastly from our own approach. Other reference texts are fragmentary or obsolete. During the last two decades, revolutionary changes have occurred in survey ing and mapping technology which have had a profound effect on actual procedures. In addition, the traditional concepts of urban surveying and map ping are undergoing rapid evolution. It is recognized that administration and planning require a great variety of continuously updated information which must be correlated with the actual physical fabric of the community, as de termined by surveying and mapping. Modern urban surveying and mapping is therefore the foundation of the broad and dynamic information system that is indispensable in any rational municipal effort.

Author : Colin Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812291506

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Mapping Decline by Colin Gordon Pdf

Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O'Neill play, it shows a general condition in a stark and dramatic form." Mapping Decline examines the causes and consequences of St. Louis's urban crisis. It traces the complicity of private real estate restrictions, local planning and zoning, and federal housing policies in the "white flight" of people and wealth from the central city. And it traces the inadequacy—and often sheer folly—of a generation of urban renewal, in which even programs and resources aimed at eradicating blight in the city ended up encouraging flight to the suburbs. The urban crisis, as this study of St. Louis makes clear, is not just a consequence of economic and demographic change; it is also the most profound political failure of our recent history. Mapping Decline is the first history of a modern American city to combine extensive local archival research with the latest geographic information system (GIS) digital mapping techniques. More than 75 full-color maps—rendered from census data, archival sources, case law, and local planning and property records—illustrate, in often stark and dramatic ways, the still-unfolding political history of our neglected cities.

Author : Justin Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770857419

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Ultimate Mapping Guide for Kids by Justin Miles Pdf

Being able to read a map and find your way is an essential lifetime skill.

Author : Laura Vaughan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353060

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Mapping Society by Laura Vaughan Pdf

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.

Author : Nadia Amoroso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415551793

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The Exposed City by Nadia Amoroso Pdf

Amoroso draws on unseen elements of the city - like crime rates and surveillance - to create mapping for the twenty-first century. Including expert interviews and examples of maps exposing the hidden elements of the city, The Exposed City shows how the urban invisibles can be made visible.

Author : Antonella Contin,Paolo Paolini,Rossella Salerno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319037981

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Innovative Technologies in Urban Mapping by Antonella Contin,Paolo Paolini,Rossella Salerno Pdf

The book presents a comprehensive vision of the impact of ICT on the contemporary city, heritage, public spaces and meta-cities on both urban and metropolitan scales, not only in producing innovative perspectives but also related to newly discovered scientific methods, which can be used to stimulate the emerging reciprocal relations between cities and information technologies. Using the principles established by multi-disciplinary interventions as examples and then expanding on them, this book demonstrates how by using ICT and new devices, metropolises can be organized for a future that preserves the historic nucleus of the city and the environment while preparing the necessary expansion of transportation, housing and industrial facilities.

Author : Dr Torsten Wissmann
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409462194

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Geographies of Urban Sound by Dr Torsten Wissmann Pdf

Taking into account both the urban soundscape and the impacts of sound on the urban dweller, this book examines sound not as a by-product of urban life, but as a fundamental part of the urban experience that is crucial to understanding the city’s sense of place. Illustrated by case studies from Europe and North America, these range from on-site measurements to the construction of audio tours for local tourism, from media analysis of popular culture audio drama to sound-identity and city branding, and from the classification of noise in city planning to a consideration of the complex relationship between sacred sound and the creation of a sense of place.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Map reading
ISBN : UCBK:C075693810

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Map Reading and Land Navigation by Anonim Pdf