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Title: Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America by Mark S. Monmonier ISBN: 0-226-53419-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Check this out if you like Edward Tufte (Envisioning Info.)
Comment: A great overview of how to convey information through cartography. The author chooses to focus on mapping environmental hazards to demonstrate this; their may be other topics that would lend itself to the exercise but the chosen subject seems a perfect fit. Entertaining and accessible.
Rating: 5
Summary: A useful tool for evaluating environmental risk.
Comment: Monmonier, a professor of geography at Syracuse University, discusses the art and science of hazard-zone mapping, "a momentous adaptation of electronics and numerical analysis", in this clearly-written explanation of the possibilities and limitations of the new cartographic genre.
Assuming no special cartographic knowledge on the part of the reader, the author begins with the basics of scale in map-making, and proceeds to explore the ways in which tornadoes, earthquakes, environmental pollution hazards, crime, and other risks are analyzed and translated into usable graphical form.
Noting that "it is wise to question the map maker's motives", Monmonier also encourages the reader to view risk-maps with some healthy skepticism as "partly rhetorical,,,social constructions" which "can always be manipulated".
With numerous charts, graphs, and maps, Monmonier's work is highly recommended as a clear exposition of geographic hazards and a useful tool for evaluating one's own level of risk.
(The "score" rating is an ineradicable feature of the page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)
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Title: How to Lie With Maps by Mark Monmonier ISBN: 0226534219 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Mapping It Out: Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences by Mark Monmonier ISBN: 0226534170 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism by Susan L. Cutter, Douglas B. Richardson, Thomas J. Wilbanks ISBN: 0415946425 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Spying With Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy by Mark Monmonier ISBN: 0226534278 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather by Mark S. Monmonier ISBN: 0226534227 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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