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Author : Denis Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Natures of Maps written by Denis Wood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory.
Author : J. B. Harley
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801870909
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Nature of Maps written by J. B. Harley and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays the author draws on ideas in art history, literature, philosophy and the study of visual culture to subvert the traditional 'positivist' model of cartography and replace it with one grounded in an iconological and semiotic theory of the nature of maps.
Author : Arthur Howard Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226722818
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nature of Maps written by Arthur Howard Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to a theory of cartography, attempting clear notions of the characteristics and processes by which a map acquires meaning from its maker and evokes meaning in its user
Author : Jennifer Jaye Price
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Flight Maps:adventures With Nature In Modern America written by Jennifer Jaye Price and published by . This book was released on 1999-04-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quirky, brilliant debut book that explores the evolution of our relationship to nature and the ways in which we attach meaning to it today. "Flight Maps" should find its place on any bookshelf with the likes of David Quammen and John McPhee.
Author : Arthur Howard Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nature of Maps written by Arthur Howard Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Wood
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 160623708X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Power of Maps written by Denis Wood and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary follow-up to the groundbreaking Power of Maps, this book takes a fresh look at what maps do, whose interests they serve, and how they can be used in surprising, creative, and radical ways. Denis Wood describes how cartography facilitated the rise of the modern state and how maps continue to embody and project the interests of their creators. He demystifies the hidden assumptions of mapmaking and explores the promises and limitations of diverse counter-mapping practices today. Thought-provoking illustrations include U.S. Geological Survey maps; electoral and transportation maps; and numerous examples of critical cartography, participatory GIS, and map art.
Author : John Brian Harley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226534695
Total Pages : 1728 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Cartography written by John Brian Harley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark History of Cartography series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J.B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the larger renaissance in map studies that the series would inspire. But as the renown of the series and the comprehensiveness and acuity of the present volume demonstrate, the history of cartography has proven to be unexpectedly fertile ground.--Amazon.com.
Author : Tania Rossetto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429794053
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Object-Oriented Cartography written by Tania Rossetto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object-Oriented Cartography provides an innovative perspective on the changing nature of maps and cartographic study. Through a renewed theoretical reading of contemporary cartography, this book acknowledges the shifted interest from cartographic representation to mapping practice and proposes an alternative consideration of the ‘thingness’ of maps. Rather than asking how maps map onto reality, it explores the possibilities of a speculative-realist map theory by bringing cartographic objects to the foreground. Through a pragmatic perspective, this book focuses on both digital and nondigital maps and establishes an unprecedented dialogue between the field of map studies and object-oriented ontology. This dialogue is carried out through a series of reflections and case studies involving aesthetics and technology, ethnography and image theory, and narrative and photography. Proposing methods to further develop this kind of cartographic research, this book will be invaluable reading for researchers and graduate students in the fields of Cartography and Geohumanities.
Author : Alan M. MacEachren
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572300408
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)
Download or read book How Maps Work written by Alan M. MacEachren and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, this classic work presents a cognitive-semiotic framework for understanding how maps work as powerful, abstract, and synthetic spatial representations. Explored are the ways in which the many representational choices inherent in mapping interact with information processing and knowledge construction, and how the resulting insights can be used to make informed symbolization and design decisions. A new preface to the paperback edition situates the book within the context of contemporary technologies. As the nature of maps continues to evolve, Alan MacEachren emphasizes the ongoing need to think systematically about the ways people interact with and use spatial information.
Author : Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226696430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mapping Nature across the Americas written by Kathleen A. Brosnan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
