Else/Where: Mapping — New Cartographies of Networks and Territories (Paperback)

~ Janet Abrams (Editor), (Editor)

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Product Description

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. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING is the second installment in an international visual/verbal collaboration focusing on the design implications of new technologies. It follows the award-winning book IF/THEN: PLAY, published in 1999, and is designed by Amsterdam studio Mevis + van Deursen.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Univ Minnesota Design Institute; 1 edition (March 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972969624
• ISBN-13: 978-0972969628
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #314,732 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye-opening, or is that i-opening?, August 14, 2006

By	SciConnects (Midwest USA) - See all my reviews

What a fun book!

Plenty of new views of our connected world plus interviews with the authors/analysts/artists (yes, they are all three) who created the extreme maps.

You would think with the advent of cyberspace that maps would recede to the background and go the way of the floppy disk. No. Mapping is transformed and redefined. Interesting discussion of mapping vs. maps.

This should be a coffee table book in every building where intelligent people congregate.

5.0 out of 5 stars superbly produced book, June 23, 2009

By	P. Seed "python mapper" (Houston, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Studying and analyzing visual images like the beautifully produced ones in this book teach scaling, the "real" Greenwich meridian, how maps change with different datum among other things.
The superb quality of the illustrations make this book unique and valuable for introducing students to analytic visual understanding

7 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Else/Where: Mapping . . ." a huge disappointment, December 24, 2006

By	Victor Gilinsky "Victor Gilinsky" (Santa Monica, CA, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

For a book on mapping the graphics are of extremely poor quality. It's really amazing that advocates of creative mapping would have so few interesting pictures and so little engaging text. There are a few worthwhile pages but not enough to justify the price of the book. I bought it on the basis of a NY Times review without seeing the book. A mistake.