TU 1
Lectures of the territory
La ciudad a través de sus cartografías
FGC – G ENERAL FORM OF THE C I TY

2006/07
TU 1
Lectures of the territory
1. Aims
For the exercise of the first Thematic Unit, we propose the realization
of a trip done or by train/metro or by car from the City of Valencia to
Liria, to analyze the different ambients one can distinguise, its
characteristic landscape and the particular form of its territory. The
aims of this work are multiple. On one hand the student has to deal
with a new kind of scale to understand the city, in which we don’t
speak about the urban and the rural, but about the territorial. For
that the student should become familiar with the use of different
kinds of mapping, showing the value and the contents of each of
them, just as the particular form of every map to show the territory in
his way.
The intention is to focus on the analysis, as a particular
instrument to observe the form of the territory, to transform the
informative and all-including mapping into a selective and proposing
mapping.
2. Description of the exercise
The exercise will be focused on the analysis of the form and the
structure of the territory situated between Valencia and Lliria (west of
Valencia, aprox. 15km), as well as of the landscape that it
characterize. The first decision the student should take is the medium
of transport, or by metro or by car. However the origin and the
destiny are the same and the spatial ambient is equal in both cases,
the lecture of the territory done in both of the transport systems will
be different enough to justify this double proposal.
La ciudad a través de sus cartografías
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2006/07
To guide the student in this exercise, once selected the transport
system and consulted the maps available, we propose to visit the site
with a special attention to the following elements :
 THE TOPOGRAPHY , THE WATER AND THE ROADS : Detailed study of the
topography describing the particular form of the territory :
landmarks, depressions, valleys, natural by-pass.
 THE TRACING OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES : the network of roads, the
railway, the electric network… Reflections on their impact on
the territory.
 THE FORM OF URBAN SETTLEMENTS : Detailed study of the occupation
of the territory : villages and cities, urbanizations, industrial areas
and
services.
The
relation
between
the
territory
and
its
infrastructure.
All these aspects should be reflected in the maps the stud ent
presents.
In the same way we remind the student that it can be interesting
to make a reflection on the following aspects :

The orientation of the map

The choice of the legend : the selection of the elements to
be represented

The selection of the graphical technique that adapts most
to whatever particular case.
We recommend to use a graphic scale of 1/50.000.
4. Presentation
The work has to be presented on a DIN A3-form, horizontal and bind
on the left side. All maps have to show the orientation and the
numeric and graphical scale. On the front page should figure the
name of the student and the title of the exercise “TU 1 Lectures of the
Territory”.
La ciudad a través de sus cartografías
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2006/07
The exercise has to be handed in on Friday the 19th of January 2007.
5. Documentation
The information for the exercise will be availble on the webpage of
the
OUR
workshop
www.upv.es/our
in
the
part
of
Docencia/FGC/Microweb. The information will be :
 Announcement of the exercise
 Map. S ERVICIO G EOGRÁFICO DEL E JÉRCITO : Military Map of Spain
1/50.000. 1990. fragments of the sheeds :
o
28-27 (695) Liria
o
29-27(696) Burjasot
o
29-28(722) Valencia
o
28-28(721) Cheste
 Map. S ERVICIO G EOGRÁFICO DEL E JÉRCITO : Military map of Spain
1/400.000. 1990. fragments of the sheeds :
o
-
4-4 Valencia
Complementary
map.
C ONSELLERÍA DE
M EDIO
Collectionof maps 1/10.000. 1991. Printscale 1/50.000
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2006/07
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