The Map Unfolds Summary

The articles “The Map Unfolds” by Joel Makower and “A View of Geography” by Yi-Fu Tuan offer diverse perspectives of the meaning and connotation of geography. The Makower’s article represents a historical context of the improvement of mapmaking providing the established scientific facts and illustrating a significant number of details of the development of craft making techniques that had been originally introduced in Western Europe in the 13th century. In contrast, Yi-Fu Tuan concentrates not only on the essential physical aspects of geology but also highlights the natural psychological concepts of the moral understanding of a geographical culture. Both articles provide a unique perspective of perception of geography, and the structure is