| Titre | The image of water: lines, networks and graphs in the hydraulic cartography of Madrid | |
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| Auteur | Carmen Gavira | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 19, janvier-mars 1995 | |
| Page | 4-16 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Cartography, as a technique for selecting, organizing and stocking data in order to transmit them through time and space, has undergone many changes in the past decade. These changes have been mainly brought about by the introduction of telecommunications, computer technology and digital supports. Water is undoubtedly one of the most complicated elements with which the cartographer is confronted in the act of representing, as much the multiplicity of its forms as its changing relationship with the elements surrounding it, and even morese when, as in modern cartography, water must be represented as infrastructure. Using the cartography of Madrid as an example, the author follows the evolution of the representation of water in this city since the earliest images of the Manzanares River in the 16th century, until the publication of the GIS for the Isabel II Channel in 1993. She analyzes not only what has changed, but also what has been preserved in the representation of urban hydrography. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1995_num_11_19_1014 |
