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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.

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Author:   Wiesława Duży (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032695846

ISBN 10:   1032695846
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   26 June 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction How To Build A Solid House, Or About The Historical Ontology Of The Urban Space Project II. Media, sources, data model 1. Modelling As A Bridge Between Maps, Spatial Concepts, And The Territory; 2. An Ontology Of Geographical Places And Their Spatiotemporal, Social Evolution In The Context Of An Extension Of The CIDOC CRM For The Humanities And Social Sciences (SDHSS); 3. Naming the parts: identifying key features within the urban landscapes of Britain circa 1900 III. Investigating urban space 4. Narrating Szczecin. Creation of urban authenticity through touristic city trails; 5. How names transform space: The change of street names in Poznań and Gdynia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 6. Uncertain information and spatial objects. Examples from works on the HOUSe project and the European Historic Towns Atlas series, Anna-Lena Schumacher IV. Mapping objects in urban space 7. Database of Topographic Objects 10k as the basis of the Historical Ontology of Urban Space ontology – construction, verification, validation; 8. Cartography and the city: Exploring urban ontologies through historic town-maps; 9. Changes in spatial development of Lviv from the second half of 18th century to the present day; Index

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Wiesława Duży is Assistant Professor at the Department of Historical Atlas at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. She is also part of a project at the Faculty of History, “People, Places, and Events” of the University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include social history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, domain ontologies in the Humanities and spatial historical databases.

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