Mappings (Critical Views) - Softcover

Cosgrove, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861890214 ISBN 13: 9781861890214

Verlag: REAKTION BOOKS, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa?

In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the spaces of modernity since the early Renaissance. The map's spatial fixity, its capacity to frame, control and communicate knowledge through combining image and text, and cartography's increasing claims to scientific authority, make mapping at once an instrument and a metaphor for rational understanding of the world.

Among the topics the authors investigate are projective and imaginative mappings; mappings of terraqueous spaces; mapping and localism at the 'chorographic' scale; and mapping as personal exploration.

With essays by Jerry Brotton, Paul Carter, Michael Charlesworth, James Corner, Wystan Curnow, Christian Jacob, Luciana de Lima Martins, David Matless, Armand Mattelart, Lucia Nuti and Alessandro Scafi

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Denis Cosgrove is Professor in Human Geography at Royal Holloway University of London and is the author of The Palladian Landscape (1993).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: REAKTION BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1861890214
• ISBN 13: 9781861890214
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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