The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

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WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel FoundationThe 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.Content: Chapter 1.1 Introductory Essay: Conceptualising Mapping (pages 1–7): Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge and Chris PerkinsChapter 1.2 General Theory, from Semiology of Graphics (pages 8–16): Jacques BertinChapter 1.3 On Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays toward Understanding Maps and Mapping (pages 17–23): Arthur H. Robinson and Barbara B. PetchenikChapter 1.4 The Science of Cartography and its Essential Processes (pages 24–31): Joel L. MorrisonChapter 1.5 Analytical Cartography (pages 32–36): Waldo R. ToblerChapter 1.6 Cartographic Communication (pages 37–47): Christopher BoardChapter 1.7 Design on Signs/Myth and Meaning in Maps (pages 48–55): Denis Wood and John FelsChapter 1.8 Deconstructing the Map (pages 56–64): J. B. HarleyChapter 1.9 Drawing Things Together (pages 65–72): Bruno LatourChapter 1.10 Cartography without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking (pages 73–82): Matthew H. EdneyChapter 1.11 Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda (pages 83–88): Alan M. MacEachren and Menno?Jan KraakChapter 1.12 The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention (pages 89–101): James CornerChapter 1.13 Beyond the ‘Binaries’: A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices (pages 102–107): Vincent J. Del Casino and Stephen P. HannaChapter 1.14 Rethinking Maps (pages 108–114): Rob Kitchin and Martin DodgeChapter 2.1 Introductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping (pages 115–121): Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris PerkinsChapter 2.2 A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in Cartography (pages 122–128): Mark S. MonmonierChapter 2.3 Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy (pages 129–133): Patrick H. McHaffieChapter 2.4 Maps and Mapping Technologies of the Persian Gulf War (pages 134–136): Keith C. ClarkeChapter 2.5 Automation and Cartography (pages 137–140): Waldo R. ToblerChapter 2.6 Cartographic Futures on a Digital Earth (pages 141–146): Michael F. GoodchildChapter 2.7 Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (pages 147–152): Phillip C. MuehrckeChapter 2.8 Remote Sensing of Urban/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio?Economic Attributes (pages 153–163): John R. Jensen and Dave C. CowenChapter 2.9 Emergence of Map Projections, from Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections (pages 164–169): John P. SynderChapter 2.10 Mobile Mapping: An Emerging Technology for Spatial Data Acquisition (pages 170–177): Rongxing LiChapter 2.11 Extending the Map Metaphor Using Web Delivered Multimedia (pages 178–184): William CartwrightChapter 2.12 Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping (pages 185–191): Tom GellerChapter 3.1 Introductory Essay: Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design (pages 193–200): Chris Perkins, Martin Dodge and Rob KitchinChapter 3.2 Interplay of Elements, from Cartographic Relief Presentation (pages 201–214): Eduard ImhofChapter 3.3 Cartography as a Visual Technique, from The Look of Maps (pages 215–218): Arthur H. RobinsonChapter 3.4 Generalisation in Statistical Mapping (pages 219–230): George F. JenksChapter 3.5 Strategies for the Visualisation of Geographic Time?Series Data (pages 231–243): Mark MonmonierChapter 3.6 The Roles of Maps, from Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design (pages 244–251): Alan M. MacEachrenChapter 3.7 Area Cartograms: Their Use and Creation (pages 252–260): Daniel DorlingChapter 3.8 ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps (pages 261–268): Mark Harrower and Cynthia A. BrewerChapter 3.9 Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century (pages 269–277): Denis CosgroveChapter 3.10 Affective Geovisualisations (pages 278–280): Stuart Aitken and James CraineChapter 3.11 Egocentric Design of Map?Based Mobile Services (pages 281–287): Liqiu MengChapter 3.12 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive (pages 288–296): Jason Dykes and Jo WoodChapter 4.1 Introductory Essay: Cognition and Cultures of Mapping (pages 297–303): Chris Perkins, Rob Kitchin and Martin DodgeChapter 4.2 Map Makers are Human: Comments on the Subjective in Maps (pages 304–311): John K. WrightChapter 4.3 Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behaviour: Process and Products (pages 312–317): Roger M. Downs and David SteaChapter 4.4 Natural Mapping (pages 318–326): James M. BlautChapter 4.5 The Map as Biography: Thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six?Inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot (pages 327–331): J. B. HarleyChapter 4.6 Reading Maps (pages 332–338): Eileen ReevesChapter 4.7 Mapping Reeds and Reading Maps: The Politics of Representation in Lake Titicaca (pages 339–353): Benjamin S. OrloveChapter 4.8 Refiguring Geography: Parish Maps of Common Ground (pages 354–361): David Crouch and David MatlessChapter 4.9 Understanding and Learning Maps (pages 362–369): Robert LloydChapter 4.10 Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography (pages 370–378): Michael F. GoodchildChapter 4.11 Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites (pages 379–386): Annu?Maaria Nivala, Stephen Brewster and Tiina SarjakoskiChapter 5.1 Introductory Essay: Power and Politics of Mapping (pages 387–394): Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge and Chris PerkinsChapter 5.2 The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project, from The Condition of Postmodernity (pages 395–399): David HarveyChapter 5.3 Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps (pages 400–406): John PicklesChapter 5.4 Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo?Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo?Body of a Nation (pages 407–411): Thongchai WinichakulChapter 5.5 First Principles of a Literary Cartography, from Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction (pages 412–421): Graham HugganChapter 5.6 Whose Woods are These? Counter?Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia (pages 422–429): Nancy Lee PelusoChapter 5.7 A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation (pages 430–439): Matthew SparkeChapter 5.8 Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and Security (pages 440–447): Jeremy W. CramptonChapter 5.9 Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion (pages 448–455): Mei?Po KwanChapter 5.10 Queering the Map: The Productive Tensions of Colliding Epistemologies (pages 456–463): Michael Brown and Larry KnoppChapter 5.11 Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography (pages 464–470): Jason Farman