Dariusz Wójcik is professor of financial geography at National University of Singapore. Wójcik leads an author team that includes Panagiotis Iliopoulos, Stefanos Ioannou, Liam Keenan, Julian Migozzi, Timothy Monteath, Vladimír Pažitka, Morag Torrance, and Michael Urban. James Cheshire is professor of geographic information and cartography at University College London; Oliver Uberti is a Los Angeles–based designer and a former design editor for National Geographic. Cheshire and Uberti are the award-winning team behind Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World.
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