The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

by Martin Dodge (Editor), Rob Kitchin (Editor), Chris Perkins (Editor)

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 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

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Sean]

I am currently reading the book. Albeit the language is not that what a (geo)Physicist would expect - it is adorned with hard sounding words, whose uniqueness of meaning is not guaranteed, and is at times rather clumsy - but I must say that I am getting introduced to a lot of new concepts. Concepts that I want to use when I forexample write a mission proposal, and thus this book is quite exciting for me !

[Mills College Library]

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