TY - BOOK ID - 33112228 TI - Cities made of boundaries : mapping social life in urban form PY - 2018 SN - 178735105X 1787351076 1787351084 9781787351073 9781787351066 1787351068 9781787351059 9781787351080 9781787351097 9781787351103 1787351092 PB - Londres : UCL Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology, Urban. KW - Urban geography. KW - City planning KW - Methodology. KW - Geography KW - Urban sociology KW - Cities and towns KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban geography KW - Cartography KW - Geographic information systems KW - Urban archaeology KW - Boundaries KW - Methodology KW - Social aspects KW - Maps KW - Villes KW - Archéologie urbaine. KW - Cartographie. KW - Plans. KW - Cities and towns. KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Urbanisme KW - Sociologie urbaine. KW - Urban archaeology. KW - Geographic information systems. KW - Cartography. KW - Boundaries. KW - Frontieres. KW - Archeologie urbaine. KW - Systemes d'information geographique. KW - Geographie urbaine. KW - Aspect social. KW - Social aspects. KW - Cartes. KW - Cartography, Primitive KW - Chartography KW - Map-making KW - Mapmaking KW - Mapping (Cartography) KW - Mathematical geography KW - Surveying KW - Map projection KW - Geographical information systems KW - GIS (Information systems) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Archaeology, Urban KW - Archaeology KW - Borders (Geography) KW - Boundary lines KW - Frontiers KW - Geographical boundaries KW - International boundaries KW - Lines, Boundary KW - Natural boundaries KW - Perimeters (Boundaries) KW - Political boundaries KW - Borderlands KW - Territory, National KW - City planning - Methodology KW - City planning - Social aspects KW - Cities and towns - Maps KW - Archéologie urbaine. KW - Cartographie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33112228 AB - 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 operationalized by a mapping practice utilizing 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 and Classic Maya Chunchucmil. 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. ER -