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9780226534688

No Dig, No Fly, No Go

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    9780226534688

  • ISBN10:

    0226534685

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-05-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

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 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 levelsfrom regional to internationaland multiple dimensionsfrom property to cyberspaceMonmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experiencefrom homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimedHow 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 Gowill change the way we look at maps forever.

Author Biography

Mark Monmonier is distinguished professor of geography at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the author of many books, including most recently, Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introduction: Boundaries Matterp. 1
Keep Off!p. 6
Keep Out!p. 30
Absentee Landlordsp. 51
Dividing the Seap. 70
Divide and Governp. 86
Contorted Boundaries, Wasted Votesp. 104
Redlining and Greenliningp. 117
Growth Managementp. 130
Vice Squad146
No Dig, No Fly, No Gop. 160
Electronic Boundariesp. 180
Notesp. 189
Selected Readings for Further Explorationp. 217
Sources of Illustrationsp. 223
Indexp. 229
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