Modelling the City: Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities (Routledge Spatial Humanities Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032695870 ISBN 13: 9781032695877

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032695870
• ISBN 13: 9781032695877
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Duży Wiesława