| Abstract |
ii |
| Dedication |
iii |
| Contents |
iv |
| List of Figures |
vi |
| List of Prints |
vii |
| Preface |
x |
| Acknowledgements |
xiii |
| Introduction: Human Cartography |
1 |
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| Chapter 1: Envisioning Information |
11 |
| 1.1 Visual Thinking |
11 |
| 1.2 Pictures Over Time |
14 |
| 1.3 Beyond Illustration |
17 |
| 1.4 Texture and Colour |
19 |
| 1.5 Perspective and Detail |
22 |
| 1.6 Pattern and Illusion |
24 |
| 1.7 From Mind to Mind |
26 |
| Chapter 2: People, Spaces and Places |
30 |
| 2.1 Which People |
30 |
| 2.2 Why Study Places? |
32 |
| 2.3 What Are Spaces? |
35 |
| 2.4 Drawing Lines |
37 |
| 2.5 Picturing Points |
41 |
| 2.6 Population Space |
44 |
| 2.7 Adding Time |
46 |
| Chapter 3: Artificial Reality |
48 |
| 3.1 Imagining Reality |
48 |
| 3.2 Abstract Spaces |
50 |
| 3.3 Area Cartograms |
54 |
| 3.4 The Nature of Space |
57 |
| 3.5 Producing Illusions |
60 |
| 3.6 Population Space |
62 |
| 3.7 Stretching Spacetime |
63 |
| Chapter 4: Honeycomb Structure |
68 |
| 4.1 Viewing Society |
68 |
| 4.2 Who the People Are |
70 |
| 4.3 Disparate Origins |
73 |
| 4.4 Lost Opportunities |
76 |
| 4.5 Work, Industry and Home |
78 |
| 4.6 How People Vote |
81 |
| 4.7 The Social Landscape |
84 |
| Chapter 5: Transforming the Mosaic |
87 |
| 5.1 Still Images of Change |
87 |
| 5.2 Forming the Structure |
88 |
| 5.3 Structure Transformed |
91 |
| 5.4 Variable Employment |
95 |
| 5.5 House Price Inflation |
97 |
| 5.6 Reshaping Votes |
98 |
| 5.7 Erosion and Deposition |
101 |
| Chapter 6: Cobweb of Flows |
104 |
| 6.1 What Flow Is |
104 |
| 6.2 What Flows There Are |
106 |
| 6.3 Unravelling the Tangles |
108 |
| 6.4 Drawing the Vortices |
110 |
| 6.5 Commuting Chaos |
114 |
| 6.6 Migration Networks |
115 |
| 6.7 A Space of Flows |
118 |
| Chapter 7: On the Surface |
122 |
| 7.1 2D Vision, 3D World |
122 |
| 7.2 Surface Definition |
124 |
| 7.3 Depth Cues |
127 |
| 7.4 Landscape Painting |
129 |
| 7.5 Surface Geometry |
131 |
| 7.6 Travel Time Surface |
133 |
| 7.7 Surface Value |
136 |
| Chapter 8: The Wood and the Trees |
138 |
| 8.1 Sculptured Characters |
138 |
| 8.2 Circles, Pies and Rings |
140 |
| 8.3 Bars and Pyramids |
142 |
| 8.4 Flocks of Arrows |
145 |
| 8.5 Trees and Castles |
147 |
| 8.6 Crowds of Faces |
149 |
| 8.7 Information Overload |
152 |
| Chapter 9: Volume Visualization |
154 |
| 9.1 The Third Dimension |
154 |
| 9.2 Spaces, Times and Places |
156 |
| 9.3 Spacetime Continuum |
159 |
| 9.4 Three Dimensional Graphs |
163 |
| 9.5 Flows Through Time |
166 |
| 9.6 Volume Rendering |
168 |
| 9.7 Interactive Visualization |
170 |
| Conclusion: Another Geography |
172 |
| Bibliography |
180 |
| Appendices |
233 |
| Appendix A: Circular Cartogram Algorithm |
234 |
| Appendix B: Parliamentary Constituencies 1955-1987 Continuity |
238 |
| Appendix C: Parliamentary Constituencies 1955-1987 Results |
259 |
| Appendix D: Average Housing Price by Constituency 1983-1989 |
275 |
| Appendix E: Scottish Ward to Postcode Sector Look-up Table |
285 |
| Appendix F: Local Government Wards, 1981 and 1987 |
291 |
| Index |
317 |
