Book description
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.
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.
