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Author : Denis Wood,John Fels
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UOM:39015049961264
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
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0801870909
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,Barbara Bartz Petchenik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226722813
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 : J. B. Harley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801870903
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 : Tania Rossetto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429794056
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 : Jennifer Jaye Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024215217
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 : John Brian Harley,David Woodward,Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0226534693
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 : Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226674865
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our representations seduce and persuade; they build and destroy. They are the ultimate record of empires and of our evolving comprehension of our world. This book is about the promises and perils of map thinking. Maps are purpose-driven abstractions, discarding detail to highlight only particular features of a territory. By preserving certain features at the expense of others, they can be used to reinforce a privileged position. When Maps Become the World shows us how the scientific theories, models, and concepts we use to intervene in the world function as maps, and explores the consequences of this, both good and bad. We increasingly understand the world around us in terms of models, to the extent that we often take the models for reality. Winther explains how in time, our historical representations in science, in cartography, and in our stories about ourselves replace individual memories and become dominant social narratives—they become reality, and they can remake the world.
Author : Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512422887
Ever wonder which states are the cloudiest? Or what city gets the most snow? Climate maps can tell you. They show average weather conditions—in your neighborhood, around the world, or even on Mars! But how do you read a climate map? And how are these maps made? Read on to learn the details!
Author : Denis Wood,John Fels
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0898624932
This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design.
Author : Denis Wood
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781606237083
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 : Ann Matzke
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627170192
How Do You Get From One Place To The Next? Learn How To Read A Map. Social Studies Based Leveled Readers For Use In Guided Reading And Social Studies Instruction.
Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469632612
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence. Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking for their place in the world. School maps quickly entered classrooms, where they shaped reading and other cognitive exercises; giant maps drew attention in public spaces; miniature maps helped Americans chart personal experiences. In short, maps were uniquely social objects whose visual and material expressions affected commercial practices and graphic arts, theatrical performances and the communication of emotions. This lavishly illustrated study follows popular maps from their points of creation to shops and galleries, schoolrooms and coat pockets, parlors and bookbindings. Between the decades leading up to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, early Americans bonded with maps; Martin Bruckner's comprehensive history of quotidian cartographic encounters is the first to show us how.
Author : John Harwood Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012163064
Author : William Rankin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226339535
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where increasingly state-of-the-art maps would become everyday tools. By the century’s end, however, there had been decisive shift in mapping practices, as the dominant methods of land surveying and print publication were increasingly displaced by electronic navigation systems. In After the Map, William Rankin argues that although this shift did not render traditional maps obsolete, it did radically change our experience of geographic knowledge, from the God’s-eye view of the map to the embedded subjectivity of GPS. Likewise, older concerns with geographic truth and objectivity have been upstaged by a new emphasis on simplicity, reliability, and convenience. After the Map shows how this change in geographic perspective is ultimately a transformation of the nature of territory, both social and political.