The map reader: theories of mapping practice and cartographic representation

The Map Reader 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.

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

The Editors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Colour Plate One: Cartographic Production.

Section One Conceptualising Mapping.

1.1 Introductory Essay: Conceptualising Mapping (Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins).

1.2 General Theory, from Semiology of Graphics (Jacques Bertin).

1.3 On Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays Toward Understanding Maps and Mapping (Arthur H. Robinson and Barbara B. Petchenik).

1.4 The Science of Cartography and its Essential Processes (Joel L. Morrison).

1.5 Analytical Cartography (Waldo R. Tobler).

1.6 Cartographic Communication (Christopher Board).

1.7 Design on Signs / Myth and Meaning in Maps (Denis Wood and John Fels).

1.8 Deconstructing the Map (J.B. Harley).

1.9 Drawing Things Together (Bruno Latour).

1.10 Cartography Without "Progress": Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking (Matthew H. Edney).

1.11 Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda (Alan M. MacEachren and Menno-Jan Kraak).

1.12 The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention (James Corner).

1.13 Beyond the "Binaries": A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices (Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and Stephen P. Hanna).

1.14 Rethinking Maps (Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge).

Colour Plate Two: Mapping the Internet.

Section Two Technologies of Mapping.

2.1 Introductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping (Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins).

2.2 A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in Cartography (Mark S. Monmonier).

2.3 Manufacturing Metaphors: Public Cartography, the Market, and Democracy (Patrick H. McHaffie).

2.4 Maps and Mapping Technologies of the Persian Gulf War (Keith C. Clarke).

2.5 Automation and Cartography (Waldo R. Tobler)

2.6 Cartographic Futures on a Digital Earth (Michael F. Goodchild).

2.7 Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (Phillip C. Muehrcke).

2.8 Remote Sensing of Urban/Suburban Infrastructure and Socio-Economic Attributes (John R. Jensen and Dave C. Cowen).

2.9 Emergence of Map Projections, from Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections (John P. Synder).

2.10 Mobile Mapping: An Emerging Technology for Spatial Data Acquisition (Rongxing Li).

2.11 Extending the Map Metaphor Using Web Delivered Multimedia (William Cartwright).

2.12 Imaging the World: The State of Online Mapping (Tom Geller).

Colour Plate Three: Pictorial Mapping.

Section Three Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design.

3.1 Introductory Essay: Cartographic Aesthetics and Map Design (Chris Perkins, Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin).

3.2 Interplay of Elements, from Cartographic Relief Presentation (Eduard Imhof).

3.3 Cartography as a Visual Technique, from The Look of Maps (Arthur H. Robinson).

3.4 Generalisation in Statistical Mapping (George F. Jenks).

3.5 Strategies for the Visualisation of Geographic Time-Series Data...