New Types of Maps: Methods of Their Creation

Summary

New Types of Maps: Methods of Their Creation, edited by K. A. Salishchev and published by Moscow University Press in 1983, draws on a November 1978 All-Union conference on systems mapping held at Moscow University. The supplied preface and contents outline research across several university faculties on mapping natural and socioeconomic territorial systems. Topics include landscapes, geology, soils, water balance, cryogenic formations, industry, transport, and historical-economic mapping, with attention to interactions between natural and socioeconomic systems. Applications encompass higher education, urban planning, environmental protection, and predictive assessment of river-flow diversion. The preface credits these studies with extending the systems approach in thematic and comprehensive mapping. Only front matter, contents, and publication details are available; the individual papers’ methods and results cannot be summarized from this material.