Metropolis : mapping the city / Jeremy Black ; contributing editor Christopher Westhorp.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: The first civilisations -- Commerce and conflict -- Cities - a global phenomenon -- Centres of importance -- Technology and meaning -- Places of transformation -- Case Study: Tenochtitlán: causeway city -- ch. 1. The Renaissance City: 1450-1600 -- The West emerges -- Enterprise and technology -- New perspectives, new precision -- Pictures and forms -- Case Study: Venice: jewel in the lagoon -- Case Study: Constantinople: where West encounters East -- ch. 2. New Horizons, New Worlds: 1600-1700 -- New world settlements -- Urban developments -- Cities and states -- Planning Paris and London -- Case Study: Amsterdam: the canal ring city -- ch. 3. An Imperial Age: 1700-1800 -- Urban and economic growth -- Places of power -- New cities for the new world -- Centres of trade and cosmopolitanism -- Maps and realities -- Case Study: Edinburgh: a city of two towns -- ch. 4. Hotbeds Of Innovation 1800-1900 -- Industries and populations -- Transportation arteries -- The infrastructure of improvement -- Cartography and technology -- An age of information -- A world of changing cities -- Case Study: mapping society: a scientific era -- ch. 5. A Global Era -- A worldwide trend -- Megacities -- Urban concerns: from sanitation to crime -- Urban and national identities -- The need for residential spaces -- Styles of development -- Shifting centres of gravity -- Changing cityscapes -- New technologies -- Data and discontent -- Cash Study: Brasilia: a monument to modernism -- ch. 6. From Print To Pixel: Into The Future -- Authoritarian visions -- Exemplary cityscapes -- Mind maps and planning maps -- Case Study: Eco-cities: green replaces grime.

The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was published by Braun and Hogenburg in 1572 for the armchair traveller interested in a world that was opening up around him. Since then our fascination with foreign cities has not abated. This sumptuous volume looks at the development of the mapping and representation of the city revealing how we organize the urban space. From skyline profiles, bird's eye views and panoramas, to the schematic maps of transport networks and road layouts to help us navigate, and statistical maps that can provide information on human aspirations, cities can reveal themselves in many ways. Focusing on key points in the development of urban representation and including visions of the future of how we would be living today, this enlightening book illustrates some of the oldest, youngest, liveliest, and most contested cities in the world.