The artistic-symbolic approach of Modern Greek Urban Cartography 1840 -1920

摘要

As an issue, the artistic versus the scientific approach in cartography and cartographic design, has concerned the cartographic community quite seriously; it is definitely included in the objects open to exploration, even though it is not characterized as one of the front line hot research topic. The production of urban Cartography in modern Greece began with the preparation of the first urban plans, concerning the creation and planning of the first cities of the new country at the beginning of the 19th century signaled. However, each time a map was designed, a different approach of 'car tographic style' was formed in terms of aesthetics and time line. Artistic movements in Art and Civi lization like romanticism, neoclassicism, art nouveau, modernism or other "movements" like Bauhaus, seem to influence, among other things, graphic representations like maps and more particularly, urban plans. Varying from simplistic urban plans designed in a sub tractive way merely depicting the design, to compound depictions of an extended semiological depiction, these 'plans' are historically categorized in four time periods, each one distinctive in terms of occasional aesthetic movements. This paper is intended to examine the trends depict in pla ns produced during the first period, go ing from 1840 to 1920, considered as the "golden era" of the modern Greek urban cartography.