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 mapping--its power to prohibit--that
celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in "No 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 levels--from regional
to international--and multiple dimensions--from property to
cyberspace--Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence
our experience--from homeownership and voting to taxation and
airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed "How
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 Go" will change the way we look at maps forever.
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