This book is an overview of plans, maps, and occasionally map-views
of great cities all over the world. It follows the development of
the city plan from its earliest stages in the Renaissance, through
the Enlightenment, to the colonial city, the Grand Tour, Asian
cities, the Industrial Revolution, gold rush and frontier cities,
the administrative city plan, and finally the modern pictorial city
map. Each map will be accompanied by a textual description of the
map placing it within its historical, political, social, and /or
economic context. In addition, we will also include short
biographies of the cartographers who produced each map highlighting
their contributions to cartography. While the work will cover many
of the world's great cities, the book will revolve around a loose
group of anchor cities with a long mapping heritage, such as New
York, London, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Rome, and others, that will
appear repeatedly as the book progresses through different styles
and eras of the urban plan. This will enable to readers to better
understand how the city plan has changed over time as well as how
these great cities have changed and, at the same time, extrapolate
a better understanding of the other city plans offered. While the
book will follow a loose chronical progression, overlapping urban
planning and cultural differences, prevent this book from following
a strict chronological order
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