TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Min Kyung
TI  - The tyranny of the straight line: mapping modern Paris. 
SN  - 9780300267648
AV  - GA865.P37 L44 2024
U1  - 526.094436109034 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Cartography
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - History
KW  - City planning
KW  - Cartographie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - Maps
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index; Master plans -- 
Triangulating the city -- 
Drawing grids -- 
The bureaucracy of plans -- 
Cartographic presentations -- 
The total view of the city --
N2  - "Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their rich potential in this lavishly illustrated study, which brings together maps and other archival materials along with drawings and paintings. She works across disciplines to examine mapping practices in the development of nineteenth-century Paris and the transformative role that urban mapping had on the city’s modernization. Lee investigates Paris’s formation as a modern city, ultimately framing the practice of cartography as a catalyst for the emergence of new spatial and compositional theories." -- Provided by publisher
ER  -