Neogeography

Definition

From the blog Placekraft at http://placekraft.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-is-neogeography-anyway.html

"Neogeography, as we see it, is a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in the manner of, the practices of professional geographers. Rather than making claims on scientific standards, methodologies of neogeography tend towards the intuitive, expressive, personal, absurd, and or artistic, but may just be idiosyncratic applications of "real" geographic techniques. This is not to say that these practices are of no use to the cartographic/geographic sciences, but that they just usually don't conform to the protocols of professional practice."

It includes "a broad field of activity that includes urban exploration, site specific sculpture, land/earth art, Geo-Tagging]], guided walks, ephemeral cities, imaginary urbanism, altered maps/radical cartography, travel writing, psychogeography, Place-based Photoblogging, etc. What connects all of these activities? There may not be a clear answer, but we would say they all comprise, or fall under the rubric of, neogeography."

Examples

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See also Geolocation