Else/Where

Mapping

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Edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published March 2004, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 0972969624

Else/Where: Mapping explores the importance of maps as aids to navigation, understanding, and cultural representation. 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: the human body is mapped with 3-D software, buildings are mapped with lasers, and cities are mapped by satellite. Else/Where: Mapping proposes--by visual example and written analysis--that mapmaking is a fundamental design process, one that shapes the physical and conceptual dimensions of contemporary multicultural society.

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