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Divisions in cities are always and inevitably political. They are also intrinsic to city life – an ineradicable part of living with people who differ from one another in a myriad of ways. (Bridge & Watson 2011, p.502)

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"there remains a very common trope within urban studies and analysis of imagining, seeing, and constructing the world from one standpoint –that of the richer, more powerful and dominant nations. " (Bridge & Watson 2011, p. 507)

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"Representations including discourses, stories, images and symbols construct natures and render them legible in particular ways, which means there are no innocent or culturally unmediated views of nature." (Ekers 2018, p. 245)

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"as soon as we consider a wilderness park to be natural we lose sight of how it was made" (Ekers 2018, 243)

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"...landscapes tend to naturalize and render invisible the complex social and cultural processes through which they are constituted such that they appear fixed, reified, and inevitable." (Prosper 2007, p. 118)

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"the precise boundaries of that homeland have been defined as much by human relations as by geography" (Hogue, 2017, p.57)

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"maps are increasingly being (re)claimed as instruments for transformation and social justice, which has led to the development of new mapping practices that challenge the status quo and use the force behind maps to effect social change" (Cook & Corbett, 2019, p.8182)

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"Yet as long as feminists look for women’s participation and power in places where they are not, and ignore the less visible, accessible, or ‘desirable’ places where they are, research is more likely to reflect our own ideological positions than the reality of women’s lives and spaces around the world." (Christie 2006, p. 659)

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"...places can in fact exist at many scales. The corner of a favorite room is a place for a child who has little say in the constitution of the wider world. At the opposite extreme, the whole earth is a place when seen from outer space. Astronauts often commented on how the earth looks like home when it is seen from afar." (Cresswell, 2009)

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"As our research shows, one needs not to know how to make a map, but also what to map and for what purpose, which is shaped by local priorities and interpretations of the landscape that vary from place to place and from one cultural group to the next. " (Smith et al. 2017)

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"The state, which in many countries holds exclusive rights over mapping, can choose to portray certain versions of reality while omitting others. Corporations with large amounts of spatial data also hold great power over the way the world is increasingly being perceived and experienced through digital maps." (Devulapalli et al., 2018, 121)

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"Rather, he argues maps should be ‘understood as producing [territory]; in important ways “maps precede territory”, they inscribe boundaries and construct objects that in turn become our realities’ (Pickles, 2004, p. 145). From this perspective, maps do not reflect the world, but our understanding of the world is influenced by maps." (Swords et al., 2019)

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Immutable mobiles - "This

meaning often has an impact on the recipient, able to affect change in their outlook, thinking and, potentially, future behavior. Maps do work in changing the

world they only seem to be representing" (Dodge 2015, 290)

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"Despite the huge amount of spatial data being collected, it is apparent that successful mapping of real-world spaces and geographic phenomena involves quite drastic degrees of abstraction - ignoring much, freezing time, simplification of  complex features, aggregation of similar features, generalization, classification - to create meaningful patterns that facilitate understanding within a given task domain" (Dodge 2015, 296)

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"Persuasive maps are like the printed page that bears symbols, 'sometimes ambiguous and usually artful' that allow in the reader's mind 'a recess for doubt'. " (Tyner 2018, 440)

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The result, one might argue, is actually a supra-nature view of reality: it is what space should look like and not what one would actually observe with the naked eye if one were onboard the satellite (Dodge and Perkins2009). (Tyner, 2018)

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"Because the public has great faith in maps but, for the most part, little training in their use and evaluation, it is easy to persuade with maps. To many, the map is the epitome of truth and accuracy." (Tyner 2018, p. 439)

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"The use of Welsh on social media bears little relation to the territorially-defined Welsh-speaking heartland studied by Emrys Brown. What are the implications of such a map for our understanding of Wales and 'Welshness'?"

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"...one could not understand Welsh culture and identity without charting the way in which it varied from one part of Wales to another. The opposite was also true. Wales as a place – its physicality if you like – was said to contribute to the nature of Welsh culture and identity." (Jones 2019, p.20)

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"How can Wales, as a developed country that is seeking to promote and support the Welsh language, accept the fact that over 90% of the population in many areas cannot speak the language? How can Wales as a nation that sees a clear value in speaking Welsh accept a situation where vast areas of its territory are almost devoid of Welsh speakers?" (Jones 2019, p.24)

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"Maps also produce spatial knowledge and do so in certain, sometimes partial, ways. Maps, therefore, are never neutral; they are always ideological in the way in which they reveal or distort different geographies." (Jones 2019, p. 23)

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The portrayal of empty lands within maps... reflecting an absence of indigenous understandings of place and identity, helped to justify colonial  expansion (Jones 2019, p. 20).