City Unseen

City Unseen
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 267
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300241082
ISBN-13 : 0300241089
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis City Unseen by : Karen C. Seto

Download or read book City Unseen written by Karen C. Seto and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhance readers’ understanding of the shape, growth, and life of urban settlements of all sizes—from the remote town of Namche Bazaar in Nepal to the vast metropolitan prefecture of Tokyo, Japan. Using satellite data, the authors show urban landscapes in new perspectives. The book’s beautiful and surprising images pull back the veil on familiar scenes to highlight the growth of cities over time, the symbiosis between urban form and natural landscapes, and the vulnerabilities of cities to the effects of climate change. We see the growth of Las Vegas and Lagos, the importance of rivers to both connecting and dividing cities like Seoul and London, and the vulnerability of Fukushima and San Juan to floods from tsunami or hurricanes. The result is a compelling book that shows cities’ relationships with geography, food, and society.


City Unseen Related Books

Visions Unseen
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Frances Ripley
Categories: Botanical artists
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Both a collection of beautiful illustrations and the story of the author's trance-like drawing techniques, this book depicts the invisible realm of devas (a San
City Unseen
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Karen C. Seto
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-18 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Stunning satellite images of one hundred cities show our urbanizing planet in a new light to reveal the fragile relationship between humanity and Earth Seeing c
Sight Unseen
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Melvyn A. Goodale
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Vision, more than any other sense, dominates our mental life. Our visual experience is just so rich, so detailed, that we can hardly distinguish that experience
Visions of an Unseen World
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Sasha Handley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-30 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and c
Sites Unseen
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Dianne Harris
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-27 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sites Unseen challenges conventions for viewing and interpreting the landscape, using visual theory to move beyond traditional practices of describing and class