ABSTRACT
Crafting maps as both aesthetic objects and as empirical evidence is important – their
form, the composition, artistic license, the capturing of the information, the spatial
relationships between form and data, the color application and lighting, and their
metaphorical relationship between the data type and presentation. The quest to
create spatial maps in relation to the unknown city – maps that can serve as design
tools and as examples of art – is profiled in this chapter. Today, thanks to the efforts
of some forward-thinking individuals, architects and urban designers are more
receptive than ever before to using alternative modes of representation to unravel
the cityscape’s deeper issues.
