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Maps and Meaning - Urban Cartography and Urban Design (Hardcover)
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Maps and Meaning - Urban Cartography and Urban Design (Hardcover)
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In today's practices of urban design, the map acts as a documentary
and design tool as well as a legal document. Its usefulness hinges
on its perceived truthfulness and objectivity in the representation
of reality. Yet this has not always and everywhere been the case.
There was a time in Western and non-Western societies where the
nature of the map and the acts of mapping were very different. This
study traces this difference in an attempt to understand the
process of change and its impact on the nature and quality of human
settlements. To do this, Dr. Nichol's new monograph explores points
of intersection between urban design and urban history. Focusing on
Southeast Asia, it examines the transition from pre-modern to
modern modes of mapping enabled through the mediation of Western
intervention. The aim is to comparatively trace the map's
historical evolution in intertwining Western and non-Western
contexts. Using archival materials, the study brings together
Southeast Asian urban history, history of urban cartography, and
urban design theories. It shows how different forms of mappings
reveal culturally specific ways of seeing and understanding the
world. Pre-modern maps typically prioritised sacred and profane
space and the proliferation of religious knowledge over the need to
satiate any geographical enquiries. As technological developments
in Europe brought about new forms of cartography, Western ideas
about space, previously dominated by socio-religious beliefs, were
openly challenged by science and exploration. The Enlightenment
period's embrace of reasoned knowledge and rational thought
filtered into mapping practices, which was eventually embraced
globally to the demise of sacred space. Yet the past survived in
urban history, and between the retrospective view of urban history
and the projective view of urban design a new schism emerged. By
examining the role of the map at a conjunction of urban history and
urban design, the study attempts to show how the Enlightenment's
rational mapping proliferated into the non-Western world, how the
production of urban space shifted from a socio-culturally motivated
style to a highly theorised framework, how the concept of the
modern city was born alongside the emergence of modern urban
planning, how the emergence of modern thinking about the city
corresponded with new ways of designing, and how theorists reacted
to the modernist urban design rationalism which was anchored in the
authority of scientific mapping. Through this path of enquiry the
study strives to uncover some of the lost meanings and functions of
the map, and to examine new approaches to dealing with the loss of
quality and identity in today's urban environments.
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