9780262611732 - Mapping Boston (The MIT Press) [Idioma Inglés] (31 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. A bright, square, and overall a nice copy.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condición: very_good. Sealed. Paperback.

Paperback. Condición: Very good +. Stated First printing. Foreword by Norman B. Leventhal. Oblong 4to. Illustrated wrappers. 278 pages, with Appendix. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w maps, photographic images, and drawings. No names or marks. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. a nice, clean copy, like new, quarto paperback, 278 pages.

Paperback. Condición: VG+ or better. First Paperback Printing. Oversize paperback with only light wear, clean and well bound with no spine creasing, clean and unmarked text. A very nice copy. Ships media mail only, unless contacted for airmail shipping. Ships in a box.

paperback. Condición: As New. Inscribed by author. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Signed.

Paperback. Condición: Used-Very Good. Illustrated. Pap. Minor shelf-wear.

Condición: Used: Like New.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No DJ. 1st Edition. Pp: xiv + 278. Titles: frt. & sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ colour & b/w maps, plans, prints, portraits, facsimile docs. & photos. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Historical essays about the mapping of Boston and vicinity. Includes appendix & index. Beautifully illustrated with period cartography.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An informative-and beautiful-exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps.To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness-bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth.The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. An informativeand beautifulexploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: New. New oversized softcover in matte printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (11.77 x 1.02 x 12.07 inches) Includes an index, glossary, chronology, photos, and illustrations. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An informativeand beautifulexploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentivenessbringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: New. pp. 292 1st edition.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: New. MIT, Cambridge, 2001/, pp. 261, Color illust., text. (Oversized: dj/hc-new). Spendid history of old Boston in maps. ISBN 9780262611732.

Soft Cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition in soft cover format, large square 4to, 278pp, colour and b/w photo illustrations; various contributors; card covers; lower edges of a few pages has been bumped/rucked up a little, nothing much, and one corner suffering from a similar problem, o/w VG+ Copy; NB This is a large heavy book well outside the preset postage tariffs; however for simplicity this item has been priced accordingly and no extra postage will be required unless buyer wants overseas sending. Overseas, which includes Europe and the Republic of Ireland and all global destinations, both Economy and Air would involve extra postage and could be expensive proportionate to the price of the book Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condición: New. An informative--and beautiful--exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. Editor(s): Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David. Num Pages: 292 pages, 100 colour and 137 b&w illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBJK; RGS; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 292 x 305 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1684. . 2001. Paperback. . . . .

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 292 pages. 12.00x11.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condición: New. An informative--and beautiful--exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. Editor(s): Krieger, Alex; Cobb, David. Num Pages: 292 pages, 100 colour and 137 b&w illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; HBJK; RGS; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 292 x 305 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1684. . 2001. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Wraps. Condición: Very good. Nancy S. Seasholes [map descriptions] and David Co Ilustrador. The format is approximately 12 inches by 11.5 inches. xiv, 278 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps (some in color). Timeline of Boston's Land Making. A Boston chronology. A Glossary of Map Terms. For Further Reading. An Index of the Maps Illustrations. Index. Cover has slight wear and lower corner curling. Illustrated covers. Contributing essays by David Bosse, James Carroll, Dvid Cobb, Alex Krieger, Barbara McCorkle, Nancy S. Seasholes, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Vignettes accompanying the plates by Anne Macklin. Alex Krieger, FAIA, has combined a career of teaching and practice. Mr. Krieger is Professor in Practice of Urban Design, Emeritus at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He served as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design (1998-2004, 2006-2007, 2019-2020), Director of the Urban Design Program (1990-2001), and as Associate Chair of the Department of Architecture (1984-1989). Since 1984, he has provided architecture, urban design, and urban planning services to clients in numerous cities worldwide, focusing primarily on educational, institutional, healthcare, and public projects. He is a board member for the Boston Public Library's Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center. Mr. Krieger received a Master of City Planning in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Major publications include: City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present (Harvard University Press, 2019); and Mapping Boston (with David Cobb and Amy Turner, MIT Press, 1999). An informative, and beautiful, exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness, bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. First MIT Press Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus.

Condición: New. pp. 292.

Paperback. Condición: Very good. Paperback Quarto. wraps, 277 pp.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: New. Alex Krieger is Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a principal of Chan Krieger &amp Associates.David Cobb is Head of the Harvard Map Collection at the Harvard College Library.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. An informative-and beautiful-exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps.To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness-bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth.The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. An informativeand beautifulexploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.