Close up at a distance : mapping, technology, and politics /

"The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite images of a quality once reserved for a few milita...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kurgan, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2013.
Temas:
Satellite image maps.
Remote-sensing images > Political aspects.
Global Positioning System > Social aspects.
Aerial photography.
Images-satellite > Aspect politique.
GPS > Aspect social.
Photographie aérienne.
aerial photography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Cartography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mapping considered as a problem of theory and practice
  • Representation and the necessity of interpretation
  • From military surveillance to the public sphere
  • You are here
  • Kuwait : image mapping
  • Cape Town, South Africa, 1968 : search or surveillance?
  • Kosovo 1999 : SPOT 083-264
  • New York, September 11, 2001
  • Around ground zero
  • Monochrome landscapes
  • Global clock
  • Million-dollar blocks.

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