Denis Wood
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Denis Wood is an artist, author, cartographer and a former professor of Design at North Carolina State University. Born in 1945, Wood grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, receiving a BA in English (in 1967) from then Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University). He received an MA (in 1971) and a PhD (in 1973) in geography from Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Wood taught environmental psychology, landscape history, and design in then School of Design (now College of Design) at North Carolina State University from 1974 through 1996. In 1992 he curated The Power of Maps exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design in New York, which he remounted in 1994 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
His works include:
- The Power of Maps - 1992
- Home Rules with Robert Beck - 1994
- Seeing through Maps with Ward Kaiser - 2001, and a second edition in 2006
- Five Billion Years of Change: A History of the Land - 2004
- Making Maps with John Krygier - 2005
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