Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Kain, Roger J.P.
Oliver, Richard R.
Titre(s) : British town maps [Texte imprimé] : a history / Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver
Publication : London : British Library, 2015
Description matérielle : 256 pages : ill, cartes ill. ; 29 cm
Comprend : 1.Defining a town ; 2.Defining a town map ; 3.Town maps for general and specific
purposes ; 4.Making and printing toIn maps: engraving, lithography and zincography,
printing in colour, photography in map reproduction ; 5.Maps that survive, maps that
are lost ; 6.Earliest town maps ; 7.The `remapping' of British towns ; 8.Towns
as property: estate maps, enclosure maps, rating maps and tithe maps ; 9.Maps of
towns in works of reference ; 10.Maps of towns in directories ; 11.Street maps
; 12.Street atlases ; 13.Maps of towns in tourist guidebooks ; 14.Mapping towns
for military purposes ; 15.The Board of Ordnance and the origins of the Ordnance
Survey ; 16.Mapping town boundaries ; 17.Sanitation maps and Ordnance Survey town
plans ; 18.The apogee of Ordnance Survey town mapping ; 19.Fire insurance maps
; 20.Maps for town planning ; Notes and references ; Index to Online Catalogue of
British Town Maps ; CBTM Online Catalogue ; List of towns in the Online Catalogue,
the number of maps catalogued for each town, and the range of dates covered by the
maps of each town.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 238-242. Index
"Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers'
ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they
strove to represent and communicate the physical patterns of streets, buildings and
spaces; the 'above ground' and the 'below ground'; the built structures and the economy;
the lives of those who live or work there; and the unseen realities of land ownership,
administration, religion and politics.These maps served a variety of purposes, from
guiding travellers, assisting with administration and government, raising taxes, planning
the built environment, organising its defence - and much, much more. Some of the maps
in this book are well known, others have languished in obscurity, deep in archives,
until revealed by the ten years' work of a British Academy research project on which
this book is founded. Lavishly illustrated in colour, it tells the story of the mapping
of urban Britain from the late middle ages until modern times. The text is accompanied
by a comprehensive index of town maps which have been catalogued on an open-access
electronic resource."
Sujet(s) : Cartographie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Villes -- Grande-Bretagne -- Plans -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0712357297. - ISBN 9780712357296
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45063347m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45063347
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