Cartography and landscape: the map as an object of study

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a cartographic approach in its objective manner related to the production and research maps, and also in symbolic form, such as understanding tool of the space, social relations and landscape. It is structured from a brief consideration regarding the role of maps and the power relationships to then deal with the urban maps and how can they be tools in the production of the cities with due distinction between the maps that produce space and maps that are produced by the space. The case study is São Paulo City, between 1930 and 1980. These considerations give support to the reading approach of landscapes through the maps and the approximation of the cartography with the Humanistic Geography.