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

Title
Close up at a distance : mapping, technology, and politics / Laura Kurgan.
Author
Kurgan, Laura.
Publication
Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2013.

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TextUse in library Map Div. 14-7550Schwarzman Building - Map Division Room 117

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Description
228 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
Subject
  • Satellite image maps
  • Remote-sensing images > Political aspects
  • Global Positioning System > Social aspects
  • Aerial photography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Mapping considered as a problem of theory and practice -- Representation and the necessity of interpretation -- From military surveillance to the public sphere -- Projects -- 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.
Call Number
Map Div. 14-7550
ISBN
  • 9781935408284 (hardback)
  • 1935408283 (hardback)
  • 9781935408420 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1935408429 (electronic bk.) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2012040173
OCLC
830324249
Author
Kurgan, Laura.
Title
Close up at a distance : mapping, technology, and politics / Laura Kurgan.
Publisher
Brooklyn, NY : Zone Books, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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Research Call Number
Map Div. 14-7550
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