Cartographic Grounds: Projecting The Landscape Imaginary

Author: Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim

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Price : 95.00 AUD
ISBN : 9781616893293
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Imprint : Princeton Architectural Press
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Publication date : 01 June 2016
Dimensions : 267mm X 216mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim
Bind : Hardback
Edition : Jun-16
Pages : 272
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Cartographic Grounds is visual compendium exploring the intersection of cartography and design through the provocative juxtaposition of maps and plans. The book offers a critique of data-driven mapping practices in the design disciplines. It argues for a return to cartographic representation, focusing on the depiction of the ground plane in landscape architecture and cartography. The book is framed by a series of critical essays and structured around ten representational techniques: soundings and spot elevations, isobaths and contours, hachures, shaded relief, land classification, figure-ground, stratigraphic column, cross section, line symbol, and conventional sign.