Revisiting Civitates Orbis Terrarum. The urban space spectacle

• Autores: Felipe Lazo Mella
• Localización: Architectural draughtsmanship: from analog to digital narratives / Enrique Castaño Perea (ed. lit.), Ernesto Echeverría Valiente (ed. lit.), 2018, ISBN 3-319-58855-9, págs. 1621-1634
• Idioma: inglés
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  • A recursive graphical resource in the representation of an urban space in the contemporary touristic thematic maps is the mix of paths with some iconic elements presented in a zoomed axonometric, perspective or elevation view. In order to explore the origins of this resource in the creation of an image for a touristic city, this work review four drawings of Barcelona in the XVI century; three by Anton Wyngaerde and one by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen that illustrates the Civitates Orbis Terrarum World Atlas as the first global image of the city of Barcelona.