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Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
Janet Abrams
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Description for Else/Where: Mapping New Cartographies of Networks and Territories
Paperback. Editor(s): Abrams, Janet; Hall, Peter. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: AK; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 990.
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite.
Illustrated with nearly 300 images, from archival woodcuts to Web-based maps and GPS drawings, ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING explores how ... Read more
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING charts the ascendancy of mapping as a powerful interdisciplinary strategy, one that links people and places, data and organizations, and physical and virtual environments. Traditionally written by history's victors, maps are gaining new currency in our information-saturated age as a means of making arguments and processes visible. Mapping technologies today are as diverse as the agendas driving them: social networks are mapped with dynamic digital interfaces; buildings are mapped with lasers; cities and regions are mapped by satellite.
Illustrated with nearly 300 images, from archival woodcuts to Web-based maps and GPS drawings, ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING explores how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Design Institute
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minneapolis, United States
ISBN
9780972969628
SKU
V9780972969628
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Ref
99-13
About Janet Abrams
Janet Abrams is director of the University of Minnesota Design Institute. She edited IF/THEN while working at the Netherlands Design Institute, Amsterdam. Peter Hall is senior editor at the University of Minnesota Design Institute and a contributing writer to Metropolis magazine. Distributed for the University of Minnesota Design Institute
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