Drawing Urban Design

THE CITY IN CONTEXT

INTRODUCTION

EARLY VIEWS OF THE CITY

THE RENAISSANCE AND PERSPECTIVE

ARTISTS AND THEIR VISIONS OF THE CITY

SCALE

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRECEDENTS AND REALIZED URBAN IDEAS

REPRESENTING THE CITY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Introduction

The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak to our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it.

Roland Barthes, “Semiology and the Urban,” in Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, Neil Leach (ed.), 1997, pp. 306–7

Cities have been represented visually since their very beginnings. The methods of their representation have adapted as the worlds around them have evolved. ...