E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book
Dodge / Kitchin / Perkins The Map Reader
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-470-98007-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
E-Book, Englisch, 504 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-0-470-98007-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by theBerendel Foundation
The Map Reader brings together, for the first time,classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides awide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarlywriting about the changing nature of cartography over the last halfcentury. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical andthought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as apowerful representational form and explores how different mappingpractices have been conceptualised in particular scholarlycontexts.
Themes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aestheticsand technology. Original interpretative essays set the literatureinto intellectual context within these themes. Excerpts are drawnfrom leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fieldsincluding: Cartography, Geography, Anthropology, Architecture,Engineering, Computer Science and Graphic Design.
The Map Reader provides a new unique single sourcereference to the essential literature in the cartographicfield:
* more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classicarticles and monographs
* critical introductions by experienced experts in the field
* focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques andideas
* a valuable resource suited to a broad spectrum of researchersand students working in cartography and GIScience, geography, thesocial sciences, media studies, and visual arts
* full page colour illustrations of significant maps asprovocative visual 'think-pieces'
* fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into afast changing field of cartographic research
Co-edited by Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins, Senior Lecturers inHuman Geography in the School of Environment and Development, theUniversity of Manchester; and Rob Kitchin, Professor of Geography,National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
