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Revisiting Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The Urban Space Spectacle

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Architectural Draughtsmanship (EGA 2016)

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A recursive graphical resource in the representation of an urban space in the contemporary touristic thematic maps is the mix of paths with some iconic elements presented in a zoomed axonometric, perspective or elevation view. In order to explore the origins of this resource in the creation of an image for a touristic city, this work review four drawings of Barcelona in the XVI century; three by Anton Wyngaerde and one by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen that illustrates the Civitates Orbis Terrarum World Atlas as the first global image of the city of Barcelona.

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    See Millán Gómez, et al. (2012). Organic and Inorganic Overlapping in Old Barcelona. For more information on the topological analysis method, refers to the theory of Space Syntax.

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  1. Centro de Investigación en Turismo y Patrimonio de la Región de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

    Felipe Lazo-Mella

  2. Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile

    Felipe Lazo-Mella

  3. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain

    Felipe Lazo-Mella

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    Enrique Castaño Perea

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    Ernesto Echeverria Valiente

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Lazo-Mella, F. (2018). Revisiting Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The Urban Space Spectacle. In: Castaño Perea, E., Echeverria Valiente, E. (eds) Architectural Draughtsmanship. EGA 2016. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58856-8_126

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