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This sumptuous volume looks at the development of the city map through time, 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.
A beautiful collection of maps, showing how we have drawn cities.
A cartographic feast. Delicious. If you've ever wondered why cities work, you'll find the answer in this beautiful book.
Of such global variety that even readers who are familiar with the subject will discover many treasures here for the first time ... Black's ambitious text gives us a short global history not only of city mapping but also of the development of cities themselves. All the many aspects of this essay in human geography, from economics and imperialism to mathematics and environmentalism, are touched on in the author's easygoing style. Most impressive are the well-informed captions.
An absorbing collection of maps or paintings from every century that show how humans have struggled to represent their cities.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of more than eighty books and has lectured extensively around the world. Jeremy's recent publications include Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 (Bloomsbury, 2012), The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (Continuum, 2011) and London: A History (Carnegie, 2009).
A beautiful collection of maps, showing how we have drawn cities.
A cartographic feast. Delicious. If you've ever wondered why cities work, you'll find the answer in this beautiful book.
Of such global variety that even readers who are familiar with the subject will discover many treasures here for the first time ... Black's ambitious text gives us a short global history not only of city mapping but also of the development of cities themselves. All the many aspects of this essay in human geography, from economics and imperialism to mathematics and environmentalism, are touched on in the author's easygoing style. Most impressive are the well-informed captions.
An absorbing collection of maps or paintings from every century that show how humans have struggled to represent their cities.
Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He is the author of more than eighty books and has lectured extensively around the world. Jeremy's recent publications include Avoiding Armageddon: From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40 (Bloomsbury, 2012), The Great War and the Making of the Modern World (Continuum, 2011) and London: A History (Carnegie, 2009).