The Editors xvii
Preface xix
Acknowledgements xxv
Colour Plate One: Cartographic Production (On the inside front cover)
Section One Conceptualising Mapping 1
1.1 Introductory Essay: Conceptualising Mapping, by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge and Chris Perkins 2
1.2 General Theory, from Semiology of Graphics, by Jacques Bertin 8
The first formal specification for semiotic rules controlling the representation of different kinds of information in a graphical form.
1.3 On Maps and Mapping, from The Nature of Maps: Essays Toward Understanding Maps and Mapping, by Arthur H. Robinson and Barbara B. Petchenik 17
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.
1.4 The Science of Cartography and its Essential Processes, by Joel L. Morrison 24
An overview of cartography as communications science and justification for a progressive and experimental approach.
1.5 Analytical Cartography, by Waldo R. Tobler 32
An early call for a rethinking of cartography deploying a more analytical approach grounded in theory and deploying mathematical principles.
1.6 Cartographic Communication, by Christopher Board 37
One of the most complete discussions of the communications paradigm and the role of modelling the flow of cartographic information.
1.7 Design on Signs / Myth and Meaning in Maps, by Denis Wood and John Fels 48
A structuralist reading of cartography as a sign system exploring how codes operate to naturalise the cultural work of the map.
1.8 Deconstructing the Map, by J.B. Harley 56
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.
1.9 Drawing Things Together, by Bruno Latour 65
Argues that visualisations play central roles in the practices of knowledge construction and establishes how the map might function as an immutable mobile.
1.10 Cartography Without 'Progress': Reinterpreting the Nature and Historical Development of Mapmaking, by Matthew H. Edney 73
Argues for an anti-progressive view of cartography as an assemblage in which different modes of knowing the world emerge from local contexts.
1.11 Exploratory Cartographic Visualisation: Advancing the Agenda, by Alan M. MacEachren and Menno-Jan Kraak 83
Sets out a research agenda for a more exploratory and interactive mapping emerging from technological and epistemological change of the early 1990s.
1.12 The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention, by James Corner 89
A persuasive argument for the creative and emancipatory potential of mapping as a set of practices exemplified by work in architecture and planning.
1.13 Beyond the 'Binaries': A Methodological Intervention for Interrogating Maps as Representational Practices, by Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. and Stephen P. Hanna 102
A call to move beyond orthodox binary thinking and to adopt a more performative approach to mapping informed by feminist critiques.
1.14 Rethinking Maps, by Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge 108
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.
Colour Plate Two: Mapping the Internet
Section Two Technologies of Mapping 115
2.1 Introductory Essay: Technologies of Mapping, by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins 116
2.2 A Century of Cartographic Change, from Technological Transition in Cartography, by Mark S. Monmonier 122
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