ABSTRACT

Modelling the City focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space.

This book examines how urban space from the past is discovered, explained and presented. It discusses the multitude of historical sources mediating the past urban space, and the structural, technical, and epistemological issues raised around building a domain ontology, including continuity, and change within urban forms and functions.

Presentation of a formal domain ontology in spatial humanities makes this book unique and worth reading. It is strongly recommended to readers interested in the linked open data approach to research, data standards in Digital Humanities, urban planning, and old maps.

part |6 pages

Introduction

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part I|58 pages

Media, sources, data model

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chapter 3|19 pages

Naming the parts

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Identifying key features within the urban landscapes of England and Wales circa 1900
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part II|66 pages

Investigating urban space

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chapter 664|17 pages

Narrating Szczecin

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Creation of urban authenticity through touristic city trails
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chapter 5|16 pages

How names transform space

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The change of street names in Poznań and Gdynia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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chapter 6|31 pages

Uncertain information and spatial objects

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Examples from works on the HOUSe project and the European Historic Towns Atlas series
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part III|81 pages

Mapping objects in urban space

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chapter 8|29 pages

Cartography and the city

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Exploring urban ontologies through historic town-maps
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