Great City Maps

Great City Maps
Title Great City Maps PDF eBook
Author DK
Publisher Penguin
Pages 258
Release 2016-09-06
Genre Reference
ISBN 1465459065

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Journey back in time and take a walk through the historic streets of the world's greatest cities. Great City Maps is the companion title to DK's Great Maps and takes a focused look at over 70 gorgeously illustrated historical maps and plans of cities around the globe. Dive into the details of each beautiful map and learn about interesting features with visual tours of the maps' highlights - such as the Old London Bridge of London in 1572 and the orchards of Brooklyn in 1767 New York. Cities are centers of civilization and the way their maps portray them reflects their politics, religion, and culture. See how certain cities, and cartographic techniques, changed over time. More than just a bird's-eye view, this irresistible book tells the tales behind the cities from the hubs of ancient peoples to modern mega-cities, and profiles the iconic cartographers and artists who created each map. Perfect for history, geography, and cartography enthusiasts and a stunning gift for armchair explorers of all ages, Great City Maps is your window into the world's most fascinating cities.

NationalGeographicTreasures

NationalGeographicTreasures
Title NationalGeographicTreasures PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Ned Danouma
Pages 510
Release
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Great City Maps

Great City Maps
Title Great City Maps PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 256
Release 2016-09-01
Genre
ISBN 9780241238981

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Great Cities of the World

Great Cities of the World
Title Great Cities of the World PDF eBook
Author W.A. Robson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 903
Release 2013-09-05
Genre Science
ISBN 1135672407

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The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed countries, in capitalist and communist states, the great metropolis represents a problem of the first importance which challenges the statesman, the official, the town planner, the political scientist, the sociologist and, above all, the intelligent citizen. The editor has here assembled an authoritative series of studies describing the growth, significance, government, politics adn planning of twenty-four great cities of the world. They show how these widely scattered cities faced essentially similar problems. Each study deals with the actual working of one city in the 1950s, how its elective adn executive bodies are organized, the kind of political forces which motivate their activities, the scope and character of the municipal services, how they are finiance. The cities dealt with include Bombay, Amsterdam, Moscow, Montreal, Stockholm, Rome, New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo. This book was first published in 1954.

Great Cities of the World

Great Cities of the World
Title Great Cities of the World PDF eBook
Author William A. Robson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 903
Release 2006-12-21
Genre Cities and towns
ISBN 0415417635

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First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

All Over the Map

All Over the Map
Title All Over the Map PDF eBook
Author Betsy Mason
Publisher National Geographic Society
Pages 324
Release 2018
Genre History
ISBN 1426219725

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Created for map lovers by map lovers, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. In this visually stunning book, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller--authors of the National Geographic cartography blog "All Over the Map"--explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers, curators, historians, and scholars, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. This diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space, devious maps created by spies, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps--and Mason and Miller would say it does, whether you know it or not--this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.

Giambattista Nolli and Rome

Giambattista Nolli and Rome
Title Giambattista Nolli and Rome PDF eBook
Author Ian Verstegen Allan Ceen
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 263
Release 2013
Genre Cartographers
ISBN 1105989704

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