Mapping urbanism, urban mapping

Abstract

This text mainly centres on how cartography becomes a research, analysis and creative prospection tool to develop cities. The text also deals with the evolution of urbanism and the relationship of cities with nature through its opening to other fields of interest such as ecology and landscape through improved mapping techniques. In this context, mapping urbanism has evolved from drawing the morphology of cities to mapping the metabolic relations among the different elements and agents that build the city. From this cultural position, mapping urbanism has become an interdisciplinary tool that recognises the combination of conditions and agents (human and non-human) that intervenes in them. The selected works feature a series of open maps that reveal aspects, sites and urban relationships that are unexpected and unexplored thus helping the discipline to evolve.