100 maps and graphics that will change how you view the city

LONDON: The Information Capital

The British Cartographic Society 
 
WINNER 
The BCS Award 2015 
 
WINNER 
The Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping 2015 
 
WINNER 
John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2015 
 
In London: The Information Capital, geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti join forces to bring you a series of new maps and graphics charting life in London like never before 
 
When do police helicopters catch criminals? Which borough of London is the happiest? Is 'czesc' becoming a more common greeting than 'salaam'? James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti could tell you, but they'd rather show you. By combining millions of data points with stunning design, they investigate how flights stack over Heathrow, who lives longest, and where Londoners love to tweet. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way. 
 
Dr James Cheshire is a geographer with a passion for London and its data. His award-winning maps draw from his research as a lecturer at University College London and have appeared in the Guardian and the Financial Times, as well as on his popular blog, mappinglondon.co.uk. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. 
 
Oliver Uberti is a visual journalist, designer, and the recipient of many awards for his information graphics and art direction. From 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor. He has a design studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The book is infinitely compelling, one you'll return to time and again, and full of 'wow, you have to see this' moments. It reinforces the notion that information really can be beautiful...

This is London as you've never seen it before

You know how you've always wanted a coffee-table book that translates lots of complex social data about London into a series of gorgeously illustrated infographics? Well it's finally arrived.

Brilliantly compelling...The Information Capital is a tour de force in the modern use of graphics to make a point

A monumental work... Its pages are to dip into, to linger over and to return to time and again. It's hard to imagine tiring of them.

You can only imagine and get a sense of how much research and data collection must have been behind this project. It is a fascinating dissection of London life as we know it

A witty, well-written, well-designed view of the city, with enlightening and often surprising perspectives

Dr James Cheshire is a geographer with a passion for London and big data. His award-winning maps have appeared in the Guardian and the Financial Times as well as on his popular blog, Mapping London. James is currently a lecturer at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2017, he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cuthbert Peek Award in recognition of his work 'advancing geographical knowledge through the use of mappable Big Data' 
 
Oliver Uberti is a visual journalist, designer, and the recipient of many awards for his information graphics and art direction. From 2003 to 2012, he worked in the design department of National Geographic, most recently as Senior Design Editor. He has a design studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

When do police helicopters catch criminals? Which borough of London is the happiest? Is 'czesc' becoming a more common greeting than 'salaam'? Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti could tell you, but they'd rather show you. By combining millions of data points with stunning design, they investigate how flights stack over Heathrow, who lives longest, and where Londoners love to tweet. The result? One hundred portraits of an old city in a very new way.

James Cheshire

Oliver Uberti

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

Fantastic . . . a magical combo of art and graphic gut-punch

Imagine Morpheus explaining The Matrix to you - but he's also a brilliant graphic designer

An endlessly fascinating array of insight and analysis

Demography and graphic design meet in an extraordinarily revealing book

Mind-blowing maps that harness the power of data to tell us something about ourselves and our planet

Andrea Wulf, author of THE INVENTION OF NATURE

A cartographer's dream, and often revelatory

Atlas of the Invisible erupts with a kind of rigorous wonder... A strange and startling masterpiece

Matthew Spektor, author of AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE

If you're into #dataviz, you *need* to have this one

Alberto Cairo, author of THE FUNCTIONAL ART

A masterful example of the power of visual storytelling to reveal [...] meaning and knowledge otherwise hidden from view

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, author of ZOOBIQUITY

An invaluable resource... It represents a critical new way of seeing and understanding

Maps & Graphics That Will Change How You See the World

Humans create data with nearly everything we do. This world of information is invisible, but it shapes society in profound ways. 
 
In Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be. Transforming enormous data sets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualisations, they uncover truths about our past, reflect who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness and anxiety levels around the globe; they trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us; they 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.

James Cheshire

Praise for Atlas of the Invisible

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

A stone cold act of genius

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

A stone cold act of genius

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be

A stone cold act of genius

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