Mapping - Fawcett-Tang & Owen

Fawcett-Tang R. & Owen W., Mapping: An Illustrated Guide To Graphic Navigational Systems,
RotoVision, Mies, 2005, 208 pp.

Although not every page from 'Mapping: An Illustrated Guide To Graphic Navigational Systems' is very relevant for our thesis, it is an interesting book. It certainly broadened my definition of a 'map' and therefore 'cartography'. So here I will try to broaden yours...

Delirious New York, Koolhaas

KOOLHAAS, Rem, Delirious New York, Monacelli Press, New York, 1994, 320 pp.

I certainly recommend reading 'Delirious New York' to everyone. After a short prehistory, Koolhaas starts with a chapter on Coney Island, the most southern part of the borough of Brooklyn. Here we discover an urbanized place with amusement and spectacle as its only goals: "... the potential of technology for the support and production of fantasy ...". Koolhaas paints Coney Island with its 'technology of the fantastic' as the embryonic experiment, in Brooklyn, essential for the development of Manhattan.

Metacity/Datatown, MVRDV

MAAS, Winy, et al., Metacity/Datatown, 010 publishers, Rotterdam, 1999, 224 pp.
(Source: Google Books)

Metacity/Datatown is a book, based on a video-installation of the same title that was exhibited in 1998-1999 and produced by MVRDV. It consists of two parts: Metacity and Datatown. Here I will summarize and discuss the most relevant, interesting and inspirational statements from the book.