Exploring Human Geography with Maps Workbook

by Pearce, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780716749172
• ISBN10: 0716749173
• Edition: Workbook
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman

Summary

You can't navigate human geography, if you can't read the maps. Thisfull-color interactive web based workbookuses cartographic visualization as an approach to using maps as tools for both the exploration and representation of geographic ideas.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(3)
Maps for Human Geography	3	(10)
Maps and Culture	4	(9)
Folk Culture / Popular Culture	13	(14)
Scale and Cultural Evidence	14	(4)
Putting It All in Perspective	18	(4)
Folk Cartography	22	(5)
Religion	27	(14)
Introducing the Thematic Map	28	(6)
Adherents, Membership, and Sects	34	(2)
Maps for Pilgrims	36	(5)
Language	41	(14)
Linguistic Regions and Ecology Online	42	(4)
Locating Vernacular Dialect with the Cartogram	46	(4)
The Power of Place Names	50	(5)
Ethnicity	55	(14)
Census Tools for Mapping Ethnic Diversity	56	(3)
Hiding and Finding Ethnic Neighborhoods with the Choropleth	59	(5)
Ethnic Diversity as Cultural Perception	64	(5)
Politics	69	(22)
The Politics of Projections	70	(5)
Evaluating Redistricting Online	75	(4)
Political Boundaries, Generalization, and Scale	79	(12)
Population	91	(14)
Population Indicators I: A Global View	92	(3)
Population Indicators II: Exploring the Details	95	(5)
Population Density in the City	100	(5)
Agriculture	105	(12)
Agricultural Landscapes from Satellite Imagery	106	(6)
Diffusion and Differentiation in Agricultural Regions	112	(1)
Environmental Perception, Agriculturalists, and the Map	113	(4)
Industry	117	(12)
Exploring Contemporary Industrial Regions	118	(4)
Industrial Ecology on the Web	122	(2)
Exploring the Industrial Locations of the Past	124	(5)
Urbanization	129	(12)
Urbanization and Population Indicators	130	(3)
Interpreting Urbanization from Satellite Imagery	133	(4)
Planning Urbanization	137	(4)
The Urban Mosaic	141	(16)
Urban Models in Practice	142	(2)
Journey-to-Work and Gender	144	(4)
The Social Structure of the City	148	(9)
Globalization	157	(6)
Making Globalization Visible	158	(5)
Acknowledgments	163	(1)
Index	163