No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Name: No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control
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ISBN: 9780226534688

ISBN-10: 0226534685

ISBN-13: 9780226534688

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mark Monmonier

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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 mappingits power to prohibitthat celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles inNo Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt's need to…

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List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



Introduction: Boundaries Matter



Keep Off!



Keep Out!



Absentee Landlords



Dividing the Sea



Divide and Govern



Contorted Boundaries, Wasted Votes



Redlining and Greenlining



Growth Management



Vice Squad146



No Dig, No Fly, No Go



Electronic Boundaries


Notes


Selected Readings for Further Exploration


Sources of Illustrations


Index