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Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin

Abraham Akkerman

pp. 127-137

Résumé

The standard in cartography, set by Claudius Ptolemy in the second century CE, placing the North on a map in a superior, "up" position, extends during the Renaissance into placing Europe or the Holy Land at the centre of maps. Flattening a three-dimensional globe onto two dimensions of a map, Renaissance cartographic modeling had also conferred disproportionately larger allocation in a map to land mass close to circumpolar regions of the Northern Hemisphere, while the unknown Australia and Antarctica were nowhere to enjoy the same kind of acquiescing distortion.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Akkerman Abraham (2016) Phenomenology of the Winter-city: myth in the rise and decline of built environments. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 127-137

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26701-2_10

Citation complète:

Akkerman Abraham, 2016, Philosophical urbanism from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin. In A. Akkerman Phenomenology of the Winter-city (127-137). Dordrecht, Springer.