Apologies — when I re-posted these yesterday, I sent two copies of the info about one of the e-books. This time both are covered ...
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These two messages were picked up by JISCmail’s spam filters but do have some relevance to historical GIS, so I am forwarding them on.
Humphrey Southall (list owner)
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UCL Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book: Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography by Professor Laura Vaughan. Download it free from http://bit.ly/2OLwhJg
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Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography
Professor Laura Vaughan
Download free: http://bit.ly/2OLwhJg
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From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated book, Laura Vaughan examines maps of ethnic or religious difference, poverty, and health inequalities, demonstrating how they not only serve as historical records of social enquiry, but also constitute inscriptions of social patterns that have been etched deeply on the surface of cities.
The book covers themes such as the use of visual rhetoric to change public opinion, the evolution of sociology as an academic practice, changing attitudes to physical disorder, and the complexity of segregation as an urban phenomenon. While the focus is on historical maps, the narrative carries the discussion of the spatial dimensions of social cartography forward to the present day, showing how disciplines such as public health, crime science, and urban planning chart spatial data in their current practice. Containing examples of space syntax analysis alongside historical maps and photographs, this volume will appeal to all those interested in the long-term forces that shape how people live in cities.
Download free: http://bit.ly/2OLwhJg
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ucl.ac.uk/ucl-ucl-press | @uclpress
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UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form by Benjamin N. Vis. Download free from: http://bit.ly/2OJZEvu
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Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form
Benjamin N. Vis
Download free: http://bit.ly/2OJZEvu
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Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understanding of the boundaries that compose built space is operationalised by a mapping practice utilising Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
Benjamin N. Vis gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by sixteenth to twenty-first century Winchester (UK) and Classic Maya Chunchucmil (Mexico). This account demonstrates how the functional and experiential difference between compact western and tropical dispersed cities can be explored.
The methodological development of Cities Made of Boundaries will appeal to readers interested in the comparative social analysis of built environments, and those seeking to expand the evidence-base of design options to structure urban life and development.
Download free: http://bit.ly/2OJZEvu
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ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press | @uclpress
Humphrey Southall
Professor of Historical Geography/
Director, GB Historical GIS
University of Portsmouth
Geography Dept, Buckingham Bldg,
Lion Terrace, Portsmouth PO1 3HE, UK
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