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oapen-20.500.12657-283372023-02-01T09:01:44Z Mapping Society Vaughan, Laura Cartography Mapping Society Social Cartography bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture::AMVD City & town planning - architectural aspects bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities. The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities. 2018-10-04 23:55 2019-12-12 15:30:09 2020-04-01T12:20:47Z 2020-04-01T12:20:47Z 2018 book 1001620 OCN: 1076639953 9781787353053 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28337 eng application/pdf n/a Mapping-Society.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787353053 102005 10.14324/111.9781787353053 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781787353053 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 268 KU Select 2018 HSS Frontlist Knowledge Unlatched open access
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From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities.
The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning, chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside full colour maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.
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