Buenos Aires City Map (Spanish Edition)
by Julian de Dios de Dios Editores
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Author: Julian de Dios de Dios EditoresEdition: Map
Audio: Spanish (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language); Spanish (Published)
Published: 2003-12-01
ISBN: 9879445120
Number of pages: 2
Publisher: de Dios Editores
Book Reviews of Buenos Aires City Map (Spanish Edition)
Book Review: A very user-friendly and well-made map
Summary: 4 Stars
I've used this map for learning BA's streets during 2 trips there, each of 5 weeks' duration. I walk for 4-7 hours every day with this map. I wouldn't go to BA without it. During my first trip, my husband lost this map a week after we arrived. Another larger more expensive map we had was impossible to wrangle discreetly with on the streets and using it marked us as tourists - not a good idea from a personal security perspective. My husband bought another copy of the preferred map at a kiosko but it was difficult to find. On my next trip there 9 months later, alone, the kioskos and major bookstores were out of this map. After 2 weeks, I found some at the book store beside the cinemas of Recoleta Village, for about $US4.00 apiece. Save yourself valuable travel time by purchasing this map online in advance of leaving on your trip. I've found this map and its lamination to be especially durable. (But I fold it only along its intended creases.) Having folded it 1000 times, I can still read the street names situated along this map's folds; that's rare with unbound street maps. Because it's so compact and slim, it slides easily into the exterior pockets of my tote bag, quickly accessible to me but invisible to others in crowded spaces.
I only wish that de Dios published a second map in the same format of the farther out barrios of BA, stretching all the way to include Tigre. For now, I resort to single-page printouts I find online of those areas.
As for this map's atypical ordinals' placement, well that's how portenos visualize their own city. This layout identifies an aspect of porteno culture, similar in nature to seeing or dancing real Argentine Tango, enjoying Argentine meals and ingredients, and learning portenos' Castellano dialect and accent. When I use this map, I feel privileged for this opportunity to learn their city their way. It also means that I haven't wasted my travel funds on experiences I can have back home. The fact that I'm completely wrong to regard Palermo as being north-east of Recoleta doesn't bother me. Because what really matters is that the main parallel central arteries which are long, wide, dense,and change names along their routes, are more quickly graspable when they're laid out horizontally, so that your eye can follow them their whole length. (We read from side-to-side in most languages.) This, in turn, helps with planning rides on the subte lines. So this strange layout actually makes sense for this particular city. It's user-friendly.
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