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This milestone in modern cartography offers a completely new way of looking at the world. Using people instead of geographical landmass as its measure, this is human geography in its truest sense.
The creators of worldmapper have combined new software with an analysis of population distribution to show our world afresh – shaped, both metaphorically and literally, by the distribution of its people. Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig, authors of the bestselling Atlas of the Real World(Geographical Association Gold Award 2009), have created a unique series of world, regional, and country maps that are shaped not by geographical landmass but by their populations and where these people are living. An innovative and graphically intriguing book, it shows why population is the most important issue of our time and makes sense of the world we really live in.
Extraordinary and unique shapes in themselves, these groundbreaking maps ‘morph’ from the standard world view into a world shaped by people. With additional data sets of population timelines, from 1950 projected to 2050, and age demographics, we see at once where and how population density impacts on the environment – and where it doesn’t. The result is both a revealing commentary on our environmental footprint and an anamorphosis – an unconventional way of seeing, and a completely new world view.
