The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation

<p><b>WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation</b></p> <p><b>The Map Reader</b> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><b>The Map Reader</b> provides a new unique single source reference to the essential literature in the cartographic field:</p> <ul> <li>more than fifty specially edited excerpts from key, classic articles and monographs</li> <li>critical introductions by experienced experts in the field</li> <li>focused coverage of key mapping practices, techniques and ideas</li> <li>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</li> <li>full page colour illustrations of significant maps as provocative visual ‘think-pieces’</li> <li>fully indexed, clearly structured and accessible ways into a fast changing field of cartographic research</li> </ul>