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Book No Dig  No Fly  No Go

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Monmonier
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226534634
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book No Dig No Fly No Go written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.

Book WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY   PRODUCT ID 23958336

Download or read book WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY PRODUCT ID 23958336 written by CAITLIN. FINLAYSON and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Technical Report RM

Download or read book General Technical Report RM written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General Technical Report SRS

Download or read book General Technical Report SRS written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cartography and the Political Imagination

Download or read book Cartography and the Political Imagination written by Julie MacArthur and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name—“Luyia”—appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic “invention.” At the same time, current restrictive theories privileging ethnic homogeneity fail to explain this defiantly diverse ethnic project, which now comprises the second-largest ethnic group in Kenya. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, which encompasses social history, geography, and political science, Julie MacArthur unpacks Luyia origins. In so doing, she calls for a shift to understanding geographic imagination and mapping not only as means of enforcing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for articulating new political communities and dissent. Through cartography, Luyia ethnic patriots crafted an identity for themselves characterized by plurality, mobility, and cosmopolitan belonging. While other historians have focused on the official maps of imperial surveyors, MacArthur scrutinizes the ways African communities adopted and adapted mapping strategies to their own ongoing creative projects. This book marks an important reassessment of current theories of ethnogenesis, investigates the geographic imaginations of African communities, and challenges contemporary readings of community and conflict in Africa.

Book Boundaries of Home

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  • Author : Doug Aberley
  • Publisher : Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Boundaries of Home written by Doug Aberley and published by Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book List of U S  Geological Survey Geologic and Water supply Reports and Maps for Utah

Download or read book List of U S Geological Survey Geologic and Water supply Reports and Maps for Utah written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geologic and Hydrologic Characterization and Evaluation of the Basin and Range Province Relative to the Disposal of High level Radioactive Waste

Download or read book Geologic and Hydrologic Characterization and Evaluation of the Basin and Range Province Relative to the Disposal of High level Radioactive Waste written by Betty M. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cost Determination Data for World War I Naval Vessels

Download or read book Cost Determination Data for World War I Naval Vessels written by Harry Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reference Information Paper

Download or read book Reference Information Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Computer Vision     ECCV 2020

Download or read book Computer Vision ECCV 2020 written by Andrea Vedaldi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

Book Geographical Exploration and Mapping in the 19th Century

Download or read book Geographical Exploration and Mapping in the 19th Century written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Substate Regionalism and the Federal System  Regional governance  promise and performance  case studies

Download or read book Substate Regionalism and the Federal System Regional governance promise and performance case studies written by United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: