Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch.

Michael R. Curry is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Introduction; Part 1 The World According to Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 1 Reason and Language in Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 2 On Space in Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 3 Optical Consistency, Technologies of Location, and the Limits of Representation; Part 2 Geographic Information Systems in Practice; Chapter 4 On the Roots of Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 5 The Reshaping of Geographic Practice; Chapter 6 Who Owns Geographic Information?; Chapter 7 The Digital Individual in a Visible World; Part 3 Living with Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 8 Geographic Information Systems and the Problem of Ethical Action; Chapter 9 Beyond PaleoGIS?;