ABSTRACT
Owing to recent progress made in the refinement of geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis using GIS is penetrating human and social sciences, such as economics, sociology, archaeology, and human geography. However, many studies using GIS in these fields are concerned with relatively recent phenomena that have occurred in the last two or three decades. Few studies deal with long-term events, such as urban growth during the social modernization process of the past 100 years.
