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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.
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Keywords
- Architectural structure & design
- Architecture
- Architecture: professional practice
- Boundary Line Type Mapping
- built environment
- Built space
- cities
- Social groups
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- Sociology: family & relationships
- Sociology: work & labour
- The arts
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- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBK Sociology: family and relationships
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour
- Theory of architecture
- urban communities
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DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787351059Editions