Visual Storytelling: Assessing the power of maps in planning

There is an abundant use of visualisation in spatial planning. This chapter is particularly concerned about planning on the regional level and beyond. On these higher levels of scales maps form the dominant visualisation mode. To fully comprehend and evaluate the content of these maps this chapter first discusses a set of theoretical concepts...

Cultivated landscapes as new cathedrals

Cornelis van Eesteren plays an instrumental role in the history of urbanism education in the Netherlands. He is regarded as a modernist, as a counterpart to the more traditional M.J. Granpré Molière. His expansion plans for Amsterdam earned him a reputation even before World War II, but as well as focusing on the IJsselmeer polders, his post-war...