ABSTRACT
Within the scientific paradigm of cartography, urban space is represented as 'directly analogous to actual ground conditions', and as such, 'maps are taken to be "true" and "objective" measures of the world'. This chapter addresses some of the strands and approaches across art and design, and there is a need for further research and practical activity and creativity. Advocating new analytical models for how urban planners might conceive of cities, M. Batty proposes a model in which the city can be regarded as 'a series of spatial events' in place of the traditional fixed infrastructures. His analytical tools also serve as a framework to consider recent work in mapping ephemeral and invisible datasets. N. Amoroso discusses how quantitative datasets such as crime statistics and property values 'can be rendered artistically, spatially and informatively in the form of alternative "maps" which represent urban dynamics'.
