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5. Gerardus Mercator's Map of the World, 1569, detail. SOURCE: "Mercator 1569 World Map," Digital image, Wikipedia, Accessed 28 June 2017, bit.ly/2u8Ae0H.
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... As Paez ( 2019) notes about mapping, " The map is a graphic device for spatial knowledge and communication, generated in contact with reality, that functions in both interpretive and projective terms" (Paez, 2019).Therefore, the idea is to portray a narrative of multiple stories into one single map followed by a series of 'Myrioramas' that are semantic to each other and developed by decolonizing varying historical episodes, texts, folksongs, maps, and fieldwork. Visual language is an intense form of communication and storytelling that began as mapmaking or cartography that influenced people's perception through the visual language presenting the historical context of culture (Willard, 2017) . Therefore, this methodology is the essential fit to show how public space emerges within the constant shifts of water embedded in a monsoon-fed landscape and its relation to the more extensive hydrological system changes concerning human settlements. ...
Dhaka's essence originates in the interplay of land and water. Monsoon rains sustain the city's sociocultural, economic, and ecological life. Therefore, the variations among the months of heavy and less rainfall during the monsoon and after post-monsoon form fluctuating hydrology. Monsoon, a geomorphic agent responsible for varied ecotones 1 , is also instrumental in producing 'otherness', where pocket public spaces (a spatial articulation of specific social practices) emerge as a geographical by-product in a natural constellation. This unique interplay of land and water explains why open space appropriation needs to be understood as a practice in a system and identify their taxonomy rather than putting them under a generic name. An alternative understanding of how public spaces emerge from the unique geographic traits and sociocultural behaviour depending on time and seasonality might offer a way to accurately rearticulate the city's public open space issues for Dhaka's distinct context. Hence, this research opts for a hybrid definition of Dhaka's public open space by mapping spatial and social structures where the city blends with water.
... Traditionally speaking, an atlas is an analogue/hardcopy publication based on the collection of maps, whereas these maps are usually the maps of the Earth and its regions [9]. However, the digitalisation process has transformed this publication genre in multiple ways [4]. ...
... Nevertheless, the basic meaning of an atlas as a map collection has been preserved [9]. The point is that the digitalisation has enabled to digitally design, collect and present the different types of maps [7], which was impossible in hardcopy atlases. ...
The traditional meaning of an atlas has changed recently, with the prompt rise of digitalisation. This process has also opened new perspectives to collect and present atlas data; the interconnection of the huge quantities of the different data sets, including the new types of data and introducing atlases with new topics as an innovation. The essential meaning of an atlas has been, however, preserved even in its digitalised version – to present spatially related phenomena and items thorough their mapping. The aim of this paper is to discuss about the structure of a digital urban atlas on the example of the creation a new one – the digital atlas of heritage cities and towns along the Danube, one of the main deliverables of DANUrB+ INTERREG Project. This atlas, planned in both hardcopy and digital versions, is still in progress; hence, the main contribution of the paper is to show the expected structure of the digital DANUrB+ Atlas by comparing the project inputs with several already existing digital urban atlases as role-models.
