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1 online resource |
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Print version record. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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.
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Urban archaeology.
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Cartography.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Archéologie urbaine.
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Cartographie.
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Sociologie urbaine.
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urban sociology.
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human geography.
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cartography (discipline)
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Architecture.
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Theory of architecture.
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Architectural structure & design.
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Architecture: professional practice.
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Urban communities.
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Sociology & anthropology.
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Sociology.
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Sociology: family & relationships.
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Sociology: work & labour.
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Cartography
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Cities and towns
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Urban archaeology
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Urbanisme -- Aspect social.
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Sociologie urbaine.
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Indexed Term |
Boundary Line Type Mapping |
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Cities |
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Built space |
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Built environment |
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Electronic books.
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Maps
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In: |
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks). OAPEN |
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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 |
ISBN |
9781787351059 (electronic bk.) |
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178735105X (electronic bk.) |
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9781787351080 (ePub ebook) |
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1787351084 |
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9781787351097 (Kindle ebook) |
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1787351092 |
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1787351076 |
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9781787351073 |
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9781787351066 (pbk.) |
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1787351068 |
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9781787351066 |
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9781787351103 (HTML) |
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1787351106 |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000066239151 |
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UKMGB 018870516 |
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AU@ 000074097087 |
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AU@ 000068988906 |