Medir, controlar y proyectarla cartografía urbana de las Luces como nuevo campo del saber

  1. Calatrava, Juan 1
  2. Cid Mendoza, Ana del 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Journal:
Cuadernos de estudios del siglo XVIII

ISSN: 1131-9879

Year of publication: 2020

Issue: 30

Pages: 95-123

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17811/CESXVIII.30.2020.95-123 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In the mid-eighteenth century the confluence of Enlightenment scientism and modernizing demands of the States gave rise to a radical turn in the cartographic representation of territories and cities. An "intelligentsia" composed by scientists, engineers, geographers, surveyors, etc. produced in less than fifty years many examples of this new way of looking at the world that embodied perfectly the Kantian "Sapere Aude!" This article attempts to outline, through the analysis of some paradigmatic cases, the nature of Enlightenment urban maps as a product of the requirement of a certain knowledge of the environment physiognomy, and as the cartographic expression of the ideas of "progress, public happiness, and wealth of the nation", as well as the utopic face of Enlightenment thinking.