{"product_id":"the-map-reader-isbn-9780470742839","title":"The Map Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Map Reader\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThemes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Map Reader\u003c\/b\u003e provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003emore than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ecritical introductions by experienced experts in the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003efocused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ea 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003efull page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003efully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Editors xvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xxv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate One: Cartographic Production (On the inside front cover)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection One Conceptualising Mapping 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Introductory Essay: Conceptualising Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 General Theory, from Semiology of Graphics, by \u003ci\u003eJacques Bertin\u003c\/i\u003e 8\u003cbr\u003e The first formal specification for semiotic rules controlling the representation of different kinds of information in a graphical form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 On Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays Toward Understanding Maps and Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eArthur H. Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBarbara B. Petchenik\u003c\/i\u003e 17\u003cbr\u003e An important contribution to the status of maps and mapping reflecting on the need for cognitive and perceptual approaches to map design and cartography as visual communication.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 The Science of Cartography and its Essential Processes, by \u003ci\u003eJoel L. Morrison\u003c\/i\u003e 24\u003cbr\u003e An overview of cartography as communications science and justification for a progressive and experimental approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.5 Analytical Cartography, by \u003ci\u003eWaldo R. Tobler\u003c\/i\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e An early call for a rethinking of cartography deploying a more analytical approach grounded in theory and deploying mathematical principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.6 Cartographic Communication, by \u003ci\u003eChristopher Board\u003c\/i\u003e 37\u003cbr\u003e One of the most complete discussions of the communications paradigm and the role of modelling the flow of cartographic information.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.7 Design on Signs \/ Myth and Meaning in Maps, by Denis Wood and John Fels 48\u003cbr\u003e A structuralist reading of cartography as a sign system exploring how codes operate to naturalise the cultural work of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.8 Deconstructing the Map, by \u003ci\u003eJ.B. Harley\u003c\/i\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e An influential call for a more engaged, critical and social constructivist approach to mapping drawing upon notions of the map as a form of power knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.9 Drawing Things Together, by \u003ci\u003eBruno Latour\u003c\/i\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e Argues that visualisations play central roles in the practices of knowledge construction and establishes how the map might function as an immutable mobile.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.10 Cartography Without ‘Progress’: Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking, by \u003ci\u003eMatthew H. Edney\u003c\/i\u003e 73\u003cbr\u003e Argues for an anti-progressive view of cartography as an assemblage in which different modes of knowing the world emerge from local contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.11 Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda, by \u003ci\u003eAlan M. MacEachren \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMenno-Jan Kraak\u003c\/i\u003e 83\u003cbr\u003e Sets out a research agenda for a more exploratory and interactive mapping emerging from technological and epistemological change of the early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.12 The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention, by \u003ci\u003eJames Corner\u003c\/i\u003e 89\u003cbr\u003e A persuasive argument for the creative and emancipatory potential of mapping as a set of practices exemplified by work in architecture and planning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.13 Beyond the ‘Binaries’: A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices, by \u003ci\u003eVincent J. Del Casino Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStephen P. Hanna\u003c\/i\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e A call to move beyond orthodox binary thinking and to adopt a more performative approach to mapping informed by feminist critiques.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.14 Rethinking Maps, by \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e Rejects the idea of mapping as ontic knowledge, focusing instead upon its processual and emergent qualities as a context-dependant and relational problem solving technology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate Two: Mapping the Internet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Two Technologies of Mapping 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Introductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in Cartography, by \u003ci\u003eMark S. Monmonier\u003c\/i\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e A progressive overview of technological change in the first eight decades of the twentieth century, focusing upon the nature, combinations and rates of change in mapmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy, by \u003ci\u003ePatrick H. McHaffie\u003c\/i\u003e 129\u003cbr\u003e Charts the connections between technological change and the labour process in the context of mass production of official mapping.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Maps and Mapping Technologies of the Persian Gulf War, by \u003ci\u003eKeith C. Clarke\u003c\/i\u003e 134\u003cbr\u003e Explores the impacts of war on mapping technologies through a case study on United States military activity in the first gulf war.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.5 Automation and Cartography, by \u003ci\u003eWaldo R. Tobler\u003c\/i\u003e 137\u003cbr\u003e A pioneering consideration of the potential of using the computer in map data, storage analysis output and display.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.6 Cartographic Futures on a Digital Earth, by \u003ci\u003eMichael F. Goodchild\u003c\/i\u003e 141\u003cbr\u003e A view from the late 1990s reflecting upon the power of digital technology to widen access to mapping but also diminish traditional visual cartographic skills.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.7 Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, by \u003ci\u003ePhillip C. Muehrcke\u003c\/i\u003e 147\u003cbr\u003e Explores the emerging relationship between the map and GIS and considers what remains unmappable with GI technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.8 Remote Sensing of Urban\/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Attributes, by \u003ci\u003eJohn R. Jensen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDave C. Cowen\u003c\/i\u003e 153\u003cbr\u003e Considers how remotely-sensed technologies can supplement more traditional urban mapping practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.9 Emergence of Map Projections, from Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections, by \u003ci\u003eJohn P. Synder\u003c\/i\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e An overview of the changing form and deployment of map projections reflecting on the flexibility of computer processing facilitating diverse choices, but also the continuing limits on appropriate use.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.10 Mobile Mapping: An Emerging Technology for Spatial Data Acquisition, by \u003ci\u003eRongxing li\u003c\/i\u003e 170\u003cbr\u003e A paper from the late 1990s illustrating the potential of mobile data collection methods subsequently realised in consumer services like Google Street View.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.11 Extending the Map Metaphor Using Web Delivered Multimedia, by \u003ci\u003eWilliam Cartwright\u003c\/i\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e An illustration of how multi-mediated interaction can deliver new kinds of information design in game like and hyper-linked interfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.12 Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eTom Geller\u003c\/i\u003e 185\u003cbr\u003e Provides a snapshot of the state of mass interactive mappingon-demand served from online corporate portals and community projects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate Three: Pictorial Mapping\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Three Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design 193\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Introductory Essay: Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design, by \u003ci\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Interplay of Elements, from Cartographic Relief Presentation, by \u003ci\u003eEduard Imhof\u003c\/i\u003e 201\u003cbr\u003e Discusses the importance of relationship between visual forms in the design of topographic mapping, with a particular focus on challenges of mountain cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Cartography as a Visual Technique, from The Look of Maps, by \u003ci\u003eArthur H. Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e Justifies the need for a visual approach to mapping, focusing in particular upon the design of thematic maps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Generalisation in Statistical Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eGeorge F. Jenks\u003c\/i\u003e 219\u003cbr\u003e A consideration of the impacts of different kinds of generalization and classification on the patterns presented in quantitative cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Strategies for the Visualisation of Geographic Time-Series Data, by \u003ci\u003eMark Monmonier\u003c\/i\u003e 231\u003cbr\u003e An early classification and conceptual framework for the consideration of mapping that simultaneously depicts time and space in an effective manner.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 The Roles of Maps, from Some Truth with Maps: A Primer on Symbolization and Design, by \u003ci\u003eAlan M. MacEachren\u003c\/i\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e Reflects on the roles of design in decision making in the era of data exploration, confirmation, synthesis and presentation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Area Cartograms: Their Use and Creation, by \u003ci\u003eDaniel Dorling\u003c\/i\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e Discusses the history design and use of different kinds of cartograms with a particular focus on their potential in mapping socio-economic and political data.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 ColorBrewer.org: An Online Tool for Selecting Colour Schemes for Maps, by \u003ci\u003eMark Harrower\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCynthia A. Brewer\u003c\/i\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e Describes the development and potential of an online tool for guiding appropriate selection of colour schemes for the representation of quantitative data in choropleth mapping.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and Cartography in the Twentieth Century, by \u003ci\u003eDenis Cosgrove\u003c\/i\u003e 269\u003cbr\u003e Charts relations between art and mapping in the early twentieth century highlighting ongoing collaboration in a period when orthodox views suggested separate practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 Affective Geovisualisations, by \u003ci\u003eStuart Aitken\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJames Craine\u003c\/i\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e Highlights what can be learnt from film and suggests geovisualisations should engage more with affect and emotion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.11 Egocentric Design of Map-Based Mobile Services, by \u003ci\u003eLiqiu Meng\u003c\/i\u003e 281\u003cbr\u003e Focuses on the design requirements for short-term and transient images revealed in egocentric displays that characterise map-based mobile services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.12 The Geographic Beauty of a Photographic Archive, by \u003ci\u003eJason Dykes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJo Wood\u003c\/i\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e Explores how the beauty of data can be revealed through the creative deployment of treemaps in an analysis the Geograph data set.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate Four: Visualising Cartographic Colour Schemes and Mapping Spatial Information Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Four Cognition and Cultures of Mapping 297\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introductory Essay: Cognition and Cultures of Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 Map Makers are Human: Comments on the Subjective in Maps, by \u003ci\u003eJohn K. Wright\u003c\/i\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e An influential and early clarion call for research into the roles people and their subjectivities play in the mapping process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Cognitive Maps and Spatial Behaviour: Process and Products, by \u003ci\u003eRoger M. Downs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDavid Stea\u003c\/i\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e An overview of behavioural geographic understanding of cognitive mapping that argues for the need for experimental investigation and establishes basic principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Natural Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eJames M. Blaut\u003c\/i\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e Provides an argument and empirical evidence for a cross cultural development of map skill acquisition, especially in children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 The Map as Biography: Thoughts on Ordnance Survey Map, Six-Inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot, by \u003ci\u003eJ.B. Harley\u003c\/i\u003e 327\u003cbr\u003e A personal reflection on the interplay between a single historic topographic survey sheet and the ways it narrates different biographical associations with place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Reading Maps, by \u003ci\u003eEileen Reeves\u003c\/i\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e An exploration of the cultural meanings attached to cartography through the map reading process that tracks the shift from a textual to visual view of the medium and considers the gendering of maps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Mapping Reeds and Reading Maps: The Politics of Representation in Lake Titicaca, by \u003ci\u003eBenjamin S. Orlove\u003c\/i\u003e 339\u003cbr\u003e A social anthropological consideration of tensions, actions and discourses involved in a local resource conflict and how maps and mapping are enrolled into cultural politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Refiguring Geography: Parish Maps of Common Ground, by \u003ci\u003eDavid Crouch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDavid Matless\u003c\/i\u003e 354\u003cbr\u003e A reflection on how place emerges through a community mapping project which highlights the interplay of politics, aesthetics and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Understanding and Learning Maps, by \u003ci\u003eRobert Lloyd\u003c\/i\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e An overview of changing trajectories of cognitive map research charting development from early psychophysical experiments to more nuanced theoretical work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography, by \u003ci\u003eMichael F. Goodchild\u003c\/i\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e Describes and explains the nature and emergence of crowdsourced mapping and assesses its potential contribution to the social production of cartography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 Usability Evaluation of Web Mapping Sites, by \u003ci\u003eAnnu-Maaria Nivala, Stephen Brewster\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eL. Tiina Sarjakoski\u003c\/i\u003e 379\u003cbr\u003e Provides an empirical comparison of web mapping portals illustrating the potential of usability engineering as a tool to evaluate and improve interface design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate Five: Visualising the Efforts of Volunteer Cartographers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Five Power and Politics of Mapping 387\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introductory Essay: Power and Politics of Mapping, by \u003ci\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/i\u003e 388\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 The Time and Space of the Enlightenment Project, from The Condition of Postmodernity, by \u003ci\u003eDavid Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e 395\u003cbr\u003e An historical analysis of perspectivism and Cartesian rationality in cartography which facilitated capital accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Texts, Hermeneutics and Propaganda Maps, by \u003ci\u003eJohn Pickles\u003c\/i\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e A textual approach to cartographic power focusing on an interpretive case study of the cultural work of propaganda maps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Mapping: A New Technology of Space; Geo-Body, from Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation, by \u003ci\u003eThongchai Winichakul\u003c\/i\u003e 407\u003cbr\u003e An insightful case study exploring the constitutive role of maps in the making of imaginative geographies of nationhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 First Principles of a Literary Cartography, from Territorial Disputes: Maps and Mapping Strategies in Contemporary Canadian and Australian Fiction, by \u003ci\u003eGraham Huggan\u003c\/i\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e Examines the potential of cartography to control, but reminds us of the destabilising potential of maps in feminist and ethnic literature, serving as both texts and textual events.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Whose Woods are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia, by \u003ci\u003eNancy Lee Peluso\u003c\/i\u003e 422\u003cbr\u003e Discusses how state interests deploy mapping as a powerful discourse, but also reveals the potential of counter-mapping by NGOs and local people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.7 A Map that Roared and an Original Atlas: Canada, Cartography, and the Narration of Nation, by \u003ci\u003eMatthew Sparke\u003c\/i\u003e 430\u003cbr\u003e A postcolonial approach to maps as contra-punctual moments in the struggle for identity and space, developed through an analysis of Canadian mapping encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.8 Cartographic Rationality and the Politics of Geosurveillance and Security, by \u003ci\u003eJeremy W. Crampton\u003c\/i\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e An historical analysis of the role of mapping as a surveillant technology deployed as part of governmental regimes to rationalise and discipline citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.9 Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion, by \u003ci\u003eMei-Po Kwan\u003c\/i\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e Argues for a vision of geo-spatial technologies informed by feminist ideas and notions of affect, that incorporates an emotional and embodied approach to mapping practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.10 Queering the Map: The Productive Tensions of Colliding Epistemologies, by \u003ci\u003eMichael Brown\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLarry Knopp\u003c\/i\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e Explores the tensions between queer geographies and Cartesian rationality, revealed in ontological and epistemological differences in a community mapping project.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.11 Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth and the Process of Postmodern Cartography, by \u003ci\u003eJason Farman\u003c\/i\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e An exploration of the emancipatory potential of Web 2.0 interfaces, reflecting on the remaking of corporate power embodied in newly crowd-sourced alternative mappings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColour Plate Six: Cartographies of Protest (On the inside back cover)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 471\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“The Map Reader feels like a rich investigation and compilation, adding to the literature of this relatively overlooked visual culture and bringing together in one place a valuable scholarly documentation and discussion of this important visual medium, along with some suggestion of the enormous potential for where it’s going.”  (\u003ci\u003eLandscape Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 March 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It is compulsory reading for ‘students, academics and lay readers interested in understanding the appeal and power of maps’. It deserves a wide reading audience.\"  (\u003ci\u003eInt. J. Environment and Pollution\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"But for anyone who wants to get the most out of a map, whatever medium it is in, it is fascinating. It is a text-book for map readers, written by map-makers\". (Law Society Journal, 1 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I highly recommend the landmark anthology The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins, to any students, researchers, and interested non-professionals in the areas of cartography, mapping technology, GIScience, social sciences, the media, the visual arts, and industry who are seeking a complete resource on the topic of map making. The articles cover every aspect of this rapidly changing field, written by leading scholars in many very diverse disciplines.\" (Blog Business World, 2 October 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Written as a comprehensive guide to cover all of these disciplines The Map Reader ensures that the most important cartographic ideas are made available to researchers, students and cartography enthusiast alike.\" (PhysOrg.com, 25 May 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Dodge\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eChris Perkins\u003c\/b\u003e, Senior Lecturers in Human Geography in the School of Environment and Development, the University of Manchester; and \u003cb\u003eRob Kitchin\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Map Reader\u003c\/i\u003e brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. Providing 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-five theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a powerful representational form and explores how different mapping practices have been conceptualized in particular scholarly contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThemes covered include paradigms, politics, people, aesthetics and technology. Original interpretative essays set the literature into intellectual context within these themes. 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