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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, U.K. ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (523 p.)
• Disciplina: 912
• Soggetto topico: Cartography; Maps
• Altri autori: DodgeMartin <1971-> KitchinRob PerkinsC. R
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The map reader
• ISBN: 1-280-59045-9; 9786613620286; 0-470-97959-3; 0-470-97958-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910131047003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II