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Author Vis, Benjamin N., author.

Title Cities made of boundaries : mapping social life in urban form / Benjamin N. Vis.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2018.

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction to Cities Made of Boundaries; The rationale; The questions; The content; The book; Chapter 1 Towards Radical Comparative Urban Studies; Introduction; Urban studies; Urban origins; Categorical cities; Comparative urbanism; Social practice based definition of cities; What to study comparatively; Representation and meaning; Environmental determinism; Low-level meaning (avoiding conflation); Research practice
Chapter 2 Adapting a Critical Realist Research ProcessIntroduction; Philosophical position; Geography and archaeology; Materiality; The material; The material inhabited built environment; Embedding the research process; Spatial (in)dependence; The social; Iterative abstraction; Chapter 3 Constituting Built Environments, Establishing Boundaries; Introduction; Reasoning towards a theoretical framework; The condition of being human; Human being in the spatial world; Empty space; Primordial space; Equalitarian space; Marked space; Filled space; Human being in the social world
Individual human beingEncounter; Projects and institutions; Autopoietic socio-spatial systems; Inhabited built environment; Boundaries; Chapter 4 Theorising Material Boundaries, Understanding Spatial Data; Introduction; Theorising boundaries; Thinking beyond categories; Consolidation and classification; Studying boundaries; Boundaries in the inhabited built environment; Boundary compositions in built environment configurations; Fiat and bona fide boundaries; Conceptual series towards spatial data; Ideational and empirical boundaries; Built boundaries; Boundary lines
Visualised or presented dataTowards an ontology of analytical units; Chapter 5 An Ontology of Boundary Line Types; Introduction; Requirements for the ontology; Formulating a BLT ontology; BLT definitions; Closing boundaries (1); Facing boundaries (2); Associative boundaries (3); Extended facing boundaries (4); Directing boundaries (5); Virtual boundaries (V); Disclosing boundaries (6); Enclosing boundaries (7); Mutual boundaries (8); Opening boundaries (9); Neutral boundaries (10); Negative definitions; Man-made boundaries of unoccupiability (11)
Not man-made boundaries of unoccupiability (12)Not man-made negative boundaries (13); Levels of socio-spatial significance of BLTs; Towards practice; Chapter 6 A Constructive Evaluation of Methods on Urban Form; Introduction; Considering methods for studying urban built form; Urban historical GIS; Historical GIS (HGIS) for cities; GIS-aided historically reconstructed city plans; GIS-based approach to studying urban built form; Urban morphology; Background to the method; The practice of town plan analysis; Emerging terms and processes; Space syntax; Background to the method
Summary Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.
Language English.
Subject Cities and towns -- Maps.
Urban archaeology.
Cartography.
Sociology, Urban.
Archéologie urbaine.
Cartographie.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
human geography.
cartography (discipline)
Architecture.
Theory of architecture.
Architectural structure & design.
Architecture: professional practice.
Urban communities.
Sociology & anthropology.
Sociology.
Sociology: family & relationships.
Sociology: work & labour.
Cartography
Cities and towns
Urban archaeology
Urbanisme -- Aspect social.
Sociologie urbaine.
Indexed Term Boundary Line Type Mapping
Cities
Built space
Built environment
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Maps
In: OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN
Books at JSTOR: Open Access. JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: VIS, BENJAMIN N. CITIES MADE OF BOUNDARIES. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL PRESS, 2018 1787351076 (OCoLC)1017592106
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