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There Is A Vast Amount Of Information About A City Which Is Invisible To The Human Eye: Crime Levels, Transportation Patterns, Cell Phone Use And Air Quality To Name Just A Few. If A City Was Able To Be Defined By These Characteristics, What Form Would It Take? How Could It Be Mapped? Nadia Amoroso Tackles These Questions By Taking Statistical Urban Data And Exploring How They Could Be Transformed Into Innovative New Maps. The Unseen Elements Of The City Are Examined In Groundbreaking Images Throughout The Book, Which Are Complemented By Interviews With Winy Maas And James Corner, Comments By Richard Saul Wurman, And Sections By The Senseable City Lab Group And Mark Aubin, Co-founder Of Google Earth--jacket. Essays: Map Or Drawing: The Visual Expressions Of Hugh Ferriss; Graphic Integrity And Mapping Complexity: The Works Of Lynch, Wurman And Tufte; The Datascapes: The Works Of Mvrdv; The Map-art: The Works Of James Corner -- Visuals: Drawings: The Map-landscapes; Afterword: Look Ahead Comments By Senseable City Lab And Google Earth Inc. Nadia Amoroso. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.