No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
Language: English
Published by Univ of Chicago Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 2010
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Another of Monmonier's witty excursions into cartography. pp242.Shelf wear only.
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- Title
- No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control
- Author
- Monmonier, Mark S.
- Publisher
- Univ of Chicago Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226534685
- ISBN 13
- 9780226534688
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- 59 Box 54
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.
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