PDF When We Build Again (Studies in International Planning History) by Bournville Village Trust in Arts-Photography

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Our critically acclaimed smash hit Cartographies of Time is now available in paperback. In this first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time; authors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton have crafted a lively history featuring fanciful characters and unexpected twists and turns. From medieval manuscripts to websites; Cartographies of Time features a wide variety of timelines that in their own unique ways; curving; crossing; branching; defy conventional thinking about the form. A fifty-four-foot-long timeline from 1753 is mounted on a scroll and encased in a protective box. Another timeline uses the different parts of the human body to show the genealogies of Jesus Christ and the rulers of Saxony. Ladders created by missionaries in eighteenth-century Oregon illustrate Bible stories in a vertical format to convert Native Americans. Also included is the April 1912 Marconi North Atlantic Communication chart; which tracked ships; including the Titanic; at points in time rather than by their geographic location; alongside little-known works by famous figures; including a historical chronology by the mapmaker Gerardus Mercator and a chronological board game patented by Mark Twain. Presented in a lavishly illustrated edition; Cartographies of Time is a revelation to anyone interested in the role visual forms have played in our evolving conception of history