Download PDF by Nadia Amoroso: The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles

By Nadia Amoroso

ISBN-10: 041555179X

ISBN-13: 9780415551793

ISBN-10: 0415551803

ISBN-13: 9780415551809

There is an unlimited volume of data a couple of urban that's invisible to the human eye – crime degrees, transportation styles, cellphone use and air caliber to call quite a few. If a urban used to be in a position to be outlined by means of those features, what shape would it not take? How may possibly it's mapped?


Nadia Amoroso tackles those questions by means of taking statistical city facts and exploring how they might be reworked into cutting edge new maps. The "unseen" parts of the town are tested in groundbreaking photographs through the e-book, that are complemented via interviews with Winy Maas and James nook, reviews via Richard Saul Wurman, and sections by way of the SENSEable urban Lab crew and Mark Aubin, co-founder of Google Earth.

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