The Map Reader (eBook)

Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9780470980071 (ISBN)

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WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation

The Map Reader 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.

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.

The Map Reader provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:

• more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs
• critical introductions by experienced experts in the field
• focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas
• 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
• full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’
• fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research

Co-edited by Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins, Senior Lecturers in Human Geography in the School of Environment and Development, the University of Manchester; and Rob Kitchin, Professor of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Rezensionen

"The Map Reader feels like a rich investigation and
compilation, adding to the literature of this relatively overlooked
visual culture and bringing together in one place a valuable
scholarly documentation and discussion of this important visual
medium, along with some suggestion of the enormous potential for
where it's going." (Landscape Ecology, 1
March 2013)

"It is compulsory reading for 'students, academics and lay
readers interested in understanding the appeal and power of
maps'. It deserves a wide reading audience." (Int.
J. Environment and Pollution, 1 October 2013)

"But for anyone who wants to get the most out of a map, whatever
medium it is in, it is fascinating. It is a text-book for map
readers, written by map-makers". (Law Society Journal, 1 October
2011)

"I highly recommend the landmark anthology The Map Reader:
Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation edited
by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins, to any students,
researchers, and interested non-professionals in the areas of
cartography, mapping technology, GIScience, social sciences, the
media, the visual arts, and industry who are seeking a complete
resource on the topic of map making. The articles cover every
aspect of this rapidly changing field, written by leading scholars
in many very diverse disciplines." (Blog Business World, 2 October
2011)

"Written as a comprehensive guide to cover all of these
disciplines The Map Reader ensures that the most important
cartographic ideas are made available to researchers, students and
cartography enthusiast alike." (PhysOrg.com, 25 May 2011)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Articles • Brings • Cartography • changing • coherent • Compendium • demonstrates • earth sciences • editorial • fiftyfive • First Time • Geowissenschaften • GIS & Remote Sensing • GIS u. Fernerkundung • Kartographie • Key • Last • map reader • Nature • original interpretative • Paradigms • Powerful • representational • scholarly • selection • texts • wideranging
• ISBN-13: 9780470980071 / 9780470980071