Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism
by Sophie Hochhäusl
- Author(s)
- Sophie Hochhäusl
- Publication
- Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, 2011
- Scope
- 152 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9783902811073
Austrian philosopher, economist, and member of the Vienna Circle, Otto Neurath (1882–1945) investigated representational maps for more than two decades of his life. In search of "humanizing knowledge" he revolutionized the discipline of chart making by quantitative maps (picture statistics) accessible to a large public. Sophie Hochhäusl argues that Neurath's "city planning" maps served not only as one of the first accessible socio-political maps of a city, but it was in effect also a heuristic architectural device. Hochhäusl explores the extent to which Neurath perceived of the city as an agglomeration of social facts and how far his socio-political map contributed to planning the city on such basis.
- Person as subject
- Otto Neurath
- Keywords
- sociology , information design , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics
- Stroom project
- After Neurath
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliography
