{"id":9156,"date":"2018-09-17T09:26:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2018-09-17T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:26:18","slug":"benjamin-vis-publishes-on-comparing-social-life-in-urban-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/09\/17\/benjamin-vis-publishes-on-comparing-social-life-in-urban-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Vis publishes on comparing social life in urban form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/vis.html\">Dr Benjamin Vis<\/a>, Eastern ARC Research Fellow (Digital Humanities)\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>, has just published a new book entitled <em>Cities Made of Boundaries: Mapping Social Life in Urban Form <\/em>(UCL Press, 2018).\u00a0The book has been made freely available for all through Open Access.<\/p>\n<p>The book 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).<\/p>\n<p>He gives a precise account of how BLT Mapping can be applied to detailed historical, reconstructed, contemporary, and archaeological urban plans, exemplified by 16th to 21st-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.<\/p>\n<p>The methodological development of\u00a0<em>Cities Made of Boundaries\u00a0<\/em>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.<\/p>\n<p>For full details, to either purchase copy or download an Open Access PDF, please see the publisher\u2019s page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/ucl-press\/browse-books\/cities-made-of-boundaries\">www.ucl.ac.uk\/ucl-press\/browse-books\/cities-made-of-boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Benjamin Vis, Eastern ARC Research Fellow (Digital Humanities)\u00a0in the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, has just published a new book entitled Cities Made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/09\/17\/benjamin-vis-publishes-on-comparing-social-life-in-urban-form\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":9157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions\/9164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}