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The Map Reader
eBook - Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
ISBN/EAN: 9780470979594
Umbreit-Nr.: 3779299
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 504 S., 14.28 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 06.04.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b>WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation</b></p><p><b>The Map Reader</b> brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualised in particular scholarly contexts.</p><p>Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawn from leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields including: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design.</p><p><b>The Map Reader</b> provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:</p><ul><li>more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs</li><li>critical introductions by experienced experts in the field</li><li>focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas</li><li>a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchers and students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, the social sciences, media studies, and visual arts</li><li>full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual think-pieces</li><li>fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Martin Dodge</b> and<b>Chris Perkins</b>, Senior Lecturers in Human Geography in the School of Environment and Development, the University of Manchester; and<b>Rob Kitchin</b>, Professor of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.