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Urban Land is one of a group of C5 projects which investigate landscape
and mapping using geographic information systems; this group of projects is referred to
as the C5 Landscape Initiative. Simply said, these projects explore landscape via the transposition
of datascapes (mapping characterizing data acquired in one location onto another location).
This particular project,Urban Land, compares land use between
different cities, with the selections being based upon similarity in elevation deviation
(the degree of difference between the low and high points). We have chosen cultural
sites as originating points, and used the topographical characteristics of that
originating site to locate analogous sites in other cities. The analogies are often
incongruous. |
