Mapping Boston
An informative—and beautiful—exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps.To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness—bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Cobb, David / Turner, Amy
- ISBN: 978-0-262-61173-2
- EAN: 9780262611732
- Produktnummer: 9326514
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
Über den Autor
Alex Krieger is Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal of Chan Krieger & Associates.David Cobb is Head of the Harvard Map Collection at the Harvard College Library.Amy Turner is a Boston-based architect.
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