Her is a good place to start
http://icg.harvard.edu/~maps/lnhist.htm
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wayde tardif
architecture+graphic design
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>From: Michael Tawa <m.tawa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: mapping alexandria
>Date: Thu, Apr 8, 1999, 10.05 PM
>
> My background is architecture, and I teach and research architectural
> design theory and practice. I wonder if anyone on the list could help
> me locate sources for maps of the site and/or city of Alexandria, Egypt
> - and/or texts which deal with the analysis of such maps (I'm thinking
> in terms of Harley's History of Cartography project & publications)?
> Ancient and modern maps; other kinds of orthographic and perspectival
> representations - topographical, geographical, urban, maritime, etc. -
> ie. of Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Colonial and recent registers of the
> place? Its for a project called Mapping: Design, in which I will try to
> explore an approach to design which uses mapping and cartographic
> practices to record various registers of place (metaphorical, symbolic,
> political, urban, cultural, personal, etc.), so as to develop
> implications for design. The project is speculative, and possibly
> peripheral to the obvious focus of the discussion group - but if anyone
> is interested to read further, let me know, and I can forward a couple
> of texts which outline the project in more specific terms.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Tawa
>
> Dr Michael Tawa
> Senior Lecture
> Faculty of the Built Environment
> University of NSW
> Sydney 2052
> Australia
>
> Telephone: 61 2 9385 4832
> Facsimile: 61 2 9385 4507
>
http://icg.harvard.edu/~maps/lnhist.htm
________________________________
wayde tardif
architecture+graphic design
________________________________
wtardif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~wtardif/index.html
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>From: Michael Tawa <m.tawa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: DESIGN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: mapping alexandria
>Date: Thu, Apr 8, 1999, 10.05 PM
>
> My background is architecture, and I teach and research architectural
> design theory and practice. I wonder if anyone on the list could help
> me locate sources for maps of the site and/or city of Alexandria, Egypt
> - and/or texts which deal with the analysis of such maps (I'm thinking
> in terms of Harley's History of Cartography project & publications)?
> Ancient and modern maps; other kinds of orthographic and perspectival
> representations - topographical, geographical, urban, maritime, etc. -
> ie. of Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Colonial and recent registers of the
> place? Its for a project called Mapping: Design, in which I will try to
> explore an approach to design which uses mapping and cartographic
> practices to record various registers of place (metaphorical, symbolic,
> political, urban, cultural, personal, etc.), so as to develop
> implications for design. The project is speculative, and possibly
> peripheral to the obvious focus of the discussion group - but if anyone
> is interested to read further, let me know, and I can forward a couple
> of texts which outline the project in more specific terms.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Tawa
>
> Dr Michael Tawa
> Senior Lecture
> Faculty of the Built Environment
> University of NSW
> Sydney 2052
> Australia
>
> Telephone: 61 2 9385 4832
> Facsimile: 61 2 9385 4507
>