Mappings - 9781861890214

Mappings\nby Denis Costgrove\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Denis Costgrove\nTitle: Mappings\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Cartography, map-making and projections\nPublisher: Reaktion Books\nPublication year: 1999\nISBN-13: 9781861890214\nISBN-10: 1861890214\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis title is presented 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. \""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.