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Understanding Different Geographies

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  • © 2013

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  • Unique treatment of the application of geographical analysis and cartographic technique to understanding different geographies
  • Trans-disciplinary approach to the mapping of non-physical and non-human geographies
  • Contemporary approaches to mapping praxis and theory
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Artefacts and Geospace

  2. History and Geospace

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About this book

This book collects revised versions of papers first delivered at the “Understanding Different Geographies Symposium” held in Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria in 2011.  The Symposium focussed on “Communicating Meaning with [Geo]Graphic Artefacts”.  The general topics of the chapters cover:
- Exploring geographic knowledge
- Maps in exhibition spaces
- Information and exhibition design with (geo)graphic artefacts
- Extracting meaning from visualisations of different geographies
- Deconstructing maps of information - and other spaces

Editors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Karel Kriz

  • Dept. Land Information, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    William Cartwright

  • , Institut für Geographie und, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria

    Michaela Kinberger

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