Daniel Dorling, Professor of Human Geography in the University of Sheffield, UKAlso Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, University Bristol, UK.Daniel Dorling's research tries to show how far understanding the patterns to people's lives can be enhanced using statistics about the population. Part of this research involves developing new techniques to analyse and popularise quantitative information about human geography, in particular introducing the use of novel cartographic techniques into geographical research. In 2006, Daniel started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.com). Respected in academia as a leader in his field, a Google search on his name also reveals how prevalent his voice is within the mainstream media.Daniel Dorling has published over 25 books and 400 papers. He is Honorary President of the Society of Cartographers.

• List of figures xi List of text boxes xxiPreface xxiiiIntroduction: Human cartography xxxv1 Envisioning information 11.1 Visual thinking 11.2 Pictures over time 41.3 Beyond illustration 111.4 Texture and colour 131.5 Perspective and detail 161.6 Pattern and illusion 201.7 From mind to mind 242 People, spaces and places 312.1 Which people? 312.2 Why study places? 342.3 What are spaces? 402.4 Drawing lines 412.5 Picturing points 502.6 Population space 522.7 Adding time 563 Artificial reality 593.1 Imagining reality 593.2 Abstract spaces 603.3 Area cartograms 663.4 The nature of space 693.5 Producing illusions 773.6 Population space 813.7 Stretching spacetime 854 Honeycomb structure 954.1 Viewing society 954.2 Who the people are 974.3 Disparate origins 1064.4 Lost opportunities 1094.5 Work, industry and home 1144.6 How people vote 1204.7 The social landscape 1235 Transforming the mosaic 1315.1 Still images of change 1315.2 Forming the structure 1325.3 Structure transformed 1365.4 Variable employment 1385.5 House price inflation 1435.6 Reshaping votes 1485.7 Erosion and deposition 1596 Cobweb of flows 1676.1 What flow is 1676.2 What flows there are 1686.3 Unravelling the tangles 1716.4 Drawing the vortices 1776.5 Commuting chaos 1846.6 Migration networks 1856.7 A space of flows 1947 On the surface 1997.1 2D vision, 3D world 1997.2 Surface definition 2027.3 Depth cues 2097.4 Landscape painting 2107.5 Surface geometry 2137.6 Travel time surface 2207.7 Surface value 2228 The wood and the trees 2258.1 Sculptured characters 2258.2 Circles, pies and rings 2278.3 Bars and pyramids 2308.4 Flocks of arrows 2378.5 Trees and castles 2388.6 Crowds of faces 2398.7 Information overload 2439 Volume visualization 2519.1 The third dimension 2519.2 Spaces, times and places 2529.3 Spacetime continuum 2599.4 Three-dimensional graphs 2629.5 Flows through time 2759.6 Volume rendering 2799.7 Interactive visualization 28010 Conclusion: Another geography 283Endnote 297Acknowledgements 299Appendix: Drawing faces 301References 305Author Index 317Subject Index 321Note. The original thesis from which this book was derived had a further six appendices and a larger bibliography. Some can be found at www.dannydorling.org.Appendix A: Circular Cartogram AlgorithmAppendix B: Parliamentary Constituencies 1955–1987 ContinuityAppendix C: Parliamentary Constituencies 1955–1987 ResultsAppendix D: Average Housing Price by Constituency 1983–1989Appendix E: Scottish Ward to Postcode Sector Look-up TableAppendix F: Local Government Wards, 1981 and 1987

“One of the more enjoyable aspects of this book is that every section begins with an interesting quote from the literature, which adds up to 60+ quotes that readers may wish to consult for future reference. A final, light-hearted observation: each chapter is divided into exactly seven sections! In some cultures, this would be interpreted as an attempt to curry favor with fate. Readers will have to decide whether Dorling played a lucky hand in turning his doctoral dissertation into a book, two decades on.”  (Journal of Regional Science, 1 October 2013)