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Humphrey Southall (list owner)
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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
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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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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