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Course Information_
Course Syllabus
Course Schedule
| Course Blog
Required Text Books_
| Visual Complexity_ Manuel Lima
| Mapping Graphic Navigational Systems_ Roger Fawcett-Tang
Mapping Exercises_
Ex_01
Ex_02
Ex_03
Ex_04
Ex_05
Ex_06
Ex_07
Ex_08
Ex_09
Ex_10
Ex_11
Ex_12
Assignments + Exercises_
Reading Position Statement
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Asg_02
Asg_03
Asg_04
Asg_05
Readings_
_01 James Corner, The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention
_02 Colin Rowe + Fred Koetter, Collage City
_03 David Grahame Shane, Recombinant Urbanism: Conceptual Modeling in Architecture, Urban Design and City Theory
_04a Kazys Varnelis + Leah Meisterlin, The Invisible City: Design in the Age of Intelligent Maps
_04b Joshua Nason, Mapping + Change: Drawing on the Awkwardness of Urban Evolution
_05 Simon Sadler, The Situationist City
Mapping Resources_
| Radical Cartography
| Urban CT-scan
| Visual Complexity
| Tschumi's Manhattan Transcripts
| Canadian Cartographic Association
| Power Mapping
| Spatial Worlds
Urban Resources_
| Lebbeus Woods' Blog
| Recombinant Urbanism
| Situationist International
| Vidler's Warped Space
| netlab
Lubbock Resources_
| The City of Lubbock
| Lubbock GIS
| Lubbock Map
| What are Playa Lakes?
| Playa Lake Mapping Project
| Ogallala: Water and the Plains
| Drainage Information
| TTU - Natural Resource Management
Los Angeles Resources_
| LA forum for Architecure and Urban Design
| MAK Center, Los Angeles
| Modern Architecture in L.A.
| L.A. Architecture
| Infrastructural City
Software Resources_
| Adobe Illustrator CS4 Tutorials
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorials
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Catalytic Mapping
A seminar exploring the potential and power of mapping as a tool to gain understanding of complex systems.
Figure: Guy Debord, Discours sur les Passions de l'Amour, 1957, psychogeographic map
“If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where the decline of the Empire sees this map become frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an Imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing) — then this fable has come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation of models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory — PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA — it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.”
_"The Precession of Simulacra" _ Jean Baudrillard
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