29.09.10 - The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles by Nadia Amoroso reviewed
Sessional Lecturer Nadia Amoroso’s recently released book, The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles (Routledge, 2010), has received positive reviews from the Landscape + Urbanism blog and Pop Up City.
Examining representations of the city not usually visible to the naked eye, The Exposed City takes textual urban data and transforms it into architectural visions. Criminal activities, population densities, transportation patterns, public surveillance, cell phone usage, air quality readings and other spatial statistics all become new maps of the city. The ‘unseen’ elements of the city are exposed in innovative maps throughout the book, which are complimented by interviews with Winy Mass and James Corner, in addition to sections by Richard Saul Wurman, the SENSEAble City Lab group and one of the founders of Google Earth.