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Atlas of the invisible : maps & graphics that will change how you see the world / James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti.

Cheshire, James, (cartographer.). Uberti, Oliver, (author.).

Summary:

"An unprecedented portrait of the hidden patterns in human society--visualized through the world of data. Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness levels around the globe, trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us, examine hidden scars of geopolitics, and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780393651515
ISBN: 0393651517
ISBN: 9780393651539
ISBN: 0393651533
Physical Description: 1 atlas (216 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Particular Books, an imprint of Penguin Books"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface and Introduction. Data at the door ; Invisible rivers ; Trails of data ; Visible secrets ; A year of sleep -- Where we've been ; Essay: The lives of others ; Vagrant lives ; Eyewitness cartography ; Partial inheritance ; Pure myth ; Ancestralia ; Oceans of data ; Seeing red ; Inhumane flows ; Nomenclature ; Graced by genius ; -- Who we are ; Essay: Drawing lines ; Population lines ; A census on demand ; An American exodus ; The united commutes ; Roads to recovery ; Light levels ; The lure of cities ; A sudden metamorphosis ; Revolutionary transport ; Ease of access ; Rivers of connectivity ; Octopus's garden -- How we're doing ; Essay: Truth to power ; Redlining Richmond ; Power failure ; States of mind ; Passport check ; Carbon overhead ; In exhaustive detail ; Electric currents ; Policing the air ; Looking for lead ; Untenable conditions ; Southern inhospitality ; Unequal loads ; Bursts of cowardice ; Raising their voices ; A visible crisis ; Bombshell reports ; Operation Niagara ; End times -- What we face ; Essay: The search for certainty ; Heat gradient ; Too hot to Hajj ; Burn scars ; One stormy sea ; Ice flows ; Treading water ; Caught at sea ; Fasten your seatbelts ; All-seeing eyes ; Move fast, break maps ; Salt it where the sun don't shine ; Here comes the sun ; The new ages -- Epilogue. Patterns of behaviour ; Hidden in every tweet ; Plague in Osaka ; Tracking ice -- Further reading -- Flattening the earth.