Trajects pendant un an d’une jeune fille du XVIe arrondissement

22 Sep 2009 by céline

Ceci n’est pas une nouvelle, this is no news. Only I admire the beauty of this mapping. As the title says it is the paths of a young woman living in Paris XVIe arrondissement during a year. She went from home to school, to piano lessons. “The study was done by French Urban Sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe in 1957 whose interest was to understand the city through the activities of the citizens. His work was meant as research for urban development decision makers”‘ I found it on Martha Skinner’s blog. Martha Skinner is interested in the city, she uses of digital visualization to understand and address the temporal social and environmental issues of our built environment.