True color image city map is a sort of new-style map which combines the high resolution image and map symbols and shows both advantages in visualization. At the same time, the map unification and harmonization should ...True color image city map is a sort of new-style map which combines the high resolution image and map symbols and shows both advantages in visualization. At the same time, the map unification and harmonization should be taken into account dur-ing the design process, since some visual conflicts appear when map symbols overlaid on the true color image. The objective of this research is to explore the rules in the process of true color image city map design based on chromatic and aesthetic knowledge. At the end, taking the Image Atlas of Guangzhou as an example, image color adjustment, road network presentation, and symbol de-signing issues will be discussed in the application.展开更多
Iain Sinclair, in his Lights Out for the Territory （1997） declared that ＂walking is the best way to explore and exploit the city＂. But what exactly is that we are looking for in our contemporary cities？ And how c...Iain Sinclair, in his Lights Out for the Territory （1997） declared that ＂walking is the best way to explore and exploit the city＂. But what exactly is that we are looking for in our contemporary cities？ And how can walking contribute in tracing （explore） and therefore mapping （exploit） all those elements or situations that we seek for？ Urban space is constantly mutating. Our experience of space as a practiced place changes gradually as the ＂sterile＂ private spaces and misleading billboards, the neo-urban surrounding urban environment evolves around us. Amidst walker drifts through the city in search for the peculiar, the original, the intriguing, and the fringe. An urban journey/drifting starts and ends without any predefined plan in mind, while remaining alert and receptive to all incentives given by the practiced urban locus （audio, visual, olfactory, and psychological incentives）. Originating from the post-Romantic English writers and the mid-nineteenth century Parisian flaneur, urban drifting has been practiced in multiple ways with different outcomes, but yet highly contributory in the depiction and specific mapping of our urban environment. This paper attempts to investigate the roots of urban drifting, its evolution, and its potential utility as a spatial practice in visual arts, architecture, and mapping.展开更多
Taking the local chronicles of 18 counties in Hanzhong Prefecture and Xing'an Prefecture in upper reaches of the Hanjiang River Valley in Qing Dynasty, this paper tried to analyze the city map and the impression o...Taking the local chronicles of 18 counties in Hanzhong Prefecture and Xing'an Prefecture in upper reaches of the Hanjiang River Valley in Qing Dynasty, this paper tried to analyze the city map and the impression of ancient people about the traditional cities using the image element concept of Kevin Lynch. From comparing the city maps and text description, it summarized the important cognitive concept of "orientation", so as to better understand the relationship between space and society in traditional cities.展开更多
文摘True color image city map is a sort of new-style map which combines the high resolution image and map symbols and shows both advantages in visualization. At the same time, the map unification and harmonization should be taken into account dur-ing the design process, since some visual conflicts appear when map symbols overlaid on the true color image. The objective of this research is to explore the rules in the process of true color image city map design based on chromatic and aesthetic knowledge. At the end, taking the Image Atlas of Guangzhou as an example, image color adjustment, road network presentation, and symbol de-signing issues will be discussed in the application.
文摘Iain Sinclair, in his Lights Out for the Territory （1997） declared that ＂walking is the best way to explore and exploit the city＂. But what exactly is that we are looking for in our contemporary cities？ And how can walking contribute in tracing （explore） and therefore mapping （exploit） all those elements or situations that we seek for？ Urban space is constantly mutating. Our experience of space as a practiced place changes gradually as the ＂sterile＂ private spaces and misleading billboards, the neo-urban surrounding urban environment evolves around us. Amidst walker drifts through the city in search for the peculiar, the original, the intriguing, and the fringe. An urban journey/drifting starts and ends without any predefined plan in mind, while remaining alert and receptive to all incentives given by the practiced urban locus （audio, visual, olfactory, and psychological incentives）. Originating from the post-Romantic English writers and the mid-nineteenth century Parisian flaneur, urban drifting has been practiced in multiple ways with different outcomes, but yet highly contributory in the depiction and specific mapping of our urban environment. This paper attempts to investigate the roots of urban drifting, its evolution, and its potential utility as a spatial practice in visual arts, architecture, and mapping.
文摘Taking the local chronicles of 18 counties in Hanzhong Prefecture and Xing'an Prefecture in upper reaches of the Hanjiang River Valley in Qing Dynasty, this paper tried to analyze the city map and the impression of ancient people about the traditional cities using the image element concept of Kevin Lynch. From comparing the city maps and text description, it summarized the important cognitive concept of "orientation", so as to better understand the relationship between space and society in traditional cities.
