Otto Neurath - City Planning
Otto Neurath - City Planning
Proposing a socio-political Map for Modern Urbanism
by Sophie Hochhäusl

Auteur(s)
Sophie Hochhäusl
Uitgever
Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, 2011
Omvang
152 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Persoon als onderwerp
Otto Neurath
Trefwoorden
sociology , information design , aesthetics - critical aesthetics , politics
Stroom project
After Neurath
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 11 - 1: Informatievormgeving
Opmerkingen
Incl. Bibliography