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Time for Mapping

Cartographic Temporalities

Daniel Evans editor Chris Perkins editor Clancy Wilmott editor Sybille Lammes editor Alex Gekker editor Sam Hind editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:7th Jun '18

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Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial tool, but in practice is deployed in ways that draw attention to memories, rhythm, synchronicity, sequence and duration. This interdisciplinary collection focuses on how these temporal aspects of mapping might be understood, at a time when mapping technologies have been profoundly changed by digital developments. It contrasts different aspects of this temporality, bringing together experts from critical cartography, media studies and science and technology studies. Together the chapters offer a unique interdisciplinary focus revealing the complex and social ways in which time in wrapped up with digital technologies and revealed in everyday mapping tasks: from navigating across cities, to serving as scientific groundings for news stories; from managing smart cities, to visual art practice. It brings time back into the map!

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

ISBN: 9781526122537

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm

Weight: 585g

288 pages