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Mappings

By Denis Cosgrove

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Mappings

By Denis Cosgrove

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"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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
1999-04-01
Publication Date:
1999-04-01
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1861890214
ISBN13:
9781861890214
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
621 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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