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In our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services
like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we
can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an
unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers, scientists, men of god,
and kings imprinted their own dreams and ideals. This new extended
edition, with the addition of about 15 maps, explores changing
perceptions of the world map through the centuries and across
multiple vastly different cultures. We will juxtapose 18th century
Buddhist cartography in Japan with European mercantile maps of the
same period. We will travel with speculative cartographers and they
argue in the scientific academies of Paris, London, and St.
Petersburg over theories about what `must' fill the great unknown.
We will observe the emergence of the modern world view through the
cartographic lens. We will see how, much like reading a long lost
childhood diary, old maps are touching earnest reminders that our
former selves' knowledge and perception of the world are rich and
limited at the same time.
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
A collection of essays on various philosophical and educational
topics.
A look at the important philosophical ideas from Plato to
Wittgenstein and their development and influence.
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