The exposed city : mapping the urban invisibles
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The exposed city : mapping the urban invisibles
Routledge, 2010
- : pbk
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Foreword by Richard Saul Wurman
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword Part 1: Essays 1. Map or Drawing? The Visual Expressions of Hugh Ferriss 2. Graphic Integrity of the Urban Complexity - Lynch, Wurman and Tufte 3. The DATAscapes: The Works of MVRDV 4. The Map-Art: Creative Measures in Landscape Mapping, the Works of James Corner Part 2: Drawings: The Map-Landscape 5.1. The Creative Map 5.2. The Map-Landscapes. Afterword
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