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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.

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