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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131047003321

Titolo

The map reader : theories of mapping practice and cartographic representation / / edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, Chris Perkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K. ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

ISBN

1-280-59045-9

9786613620286

0-470-97959-3

0-470-97958-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (523 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DodgeMartin <1971->

KitchinRob

PerkinsC. R

Disciplina

912

Soggetti

Cartography

Maps

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Conceptualising mapping -- section 2. Technologies of mapping -- section 3. Cartographic aesthetics and map design -- section 4. Cognition and cultures of mapping -- section 5. Power and politics of mapping.

Sommario/riassunto

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