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The foundations of spatial analysis span many
disciplines over many generations of researchers and
practitioners. CSISS Classics provides
summaries and illustrations of major contributions to
spatial thinking in the social sciences. Primary emphasis
is given to research before 1980, with an attempt to
capture and acknowledge the repository of spatial thinking
in the social sciences for the last few centuries. The
summaries, along with key references, are intended as
guides for those interested in exploring intellectual
inheritance from previous generations.
Your help is requested in suggesting topics, key papers,
and schools of thought that should be represented in
this collection - please send these to the CSISS
Classics editor, Don Janelle.
Copyright permission has been requested and is still
pending on some images used in the CSISS Classics.
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| CSISS CLASSICS: SPATIAL INNOVATORS AND INNOVATIONS BEFORE 1980 |
 Charles Booth- Title: Mapping London's Poverty, 1885-1903
Spatial Concept: Mapping and social surveys, neighborhood effects
Discipline: Criminology, Demography, Geography, History, Law & Society, Political Science, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Walter Christaller- Title: Hierarchical Patterns of Urbanization
Spatial Concept: regions, hierarchy, distribution
Discipline: Area Studies, Economics, Geography, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning
| Grady Clay- Title: The Reading of the American City, 1973.
Spatial Concept: Spatial metaphors for interpreting landscape change
Discipline: Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Alice Coleman- Title: Design Disadvantagement, 1985.
Spatial Concept: built-environment - behavior relationships
Discipline: Criminology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Patrick Doreian- Title: Modeling Sociological Processes Using Spatially Distributed Data
Spatial Concept: spatial autocorrelation, regressive-autoregressive modeling
Discipline: Sociology, Statistics
| Constantinos Doxiadis- Title: Ekistics, 1968
Spatial Concept: Scale consideration in settlement systems design
Discipline: Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies, Other
| Vernor C. Finch- Title: The "Fractional Code" for Land Use Mapping, 1933.
Spatial Concept: Multi-variable mapping and land use classification
Discipline: Area Studies, Environmental Studies & Policy, Geography
| Leonhard Ludwig Finke- Title: Leonhard Ludwig Finke: Medical Geography
Spatial Concept: global perspective
Discipline: Geography, Public Health
| Robert W. Fogel- Title: The Argument for Wagons and Canals, 1964.
Spatial Concept: Distance buffers, spatial econometrics
Discipline: Economics, History, Regional Science
| Joel Garreau- Title: Edge Cities and the Nine Nations of North America
Spatial Concept: Regionalization and regional synthesis of change
Discipline: Area Studies, Demography, Geography, Regional Science, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Peter Gould and Waldo Tobler- Title: An Experiment in Geo-Coding
Spatial Concept: Place-based search, geo-coding, geographical coordinates
Discipline: Communication Studies, Geography
| Zvi Griliches- Title: The Diffusion of Hybrid Corn Technology, 1957
Spatial Concept: innovation diffusion, spatial diffusion, logistic growth processes
Discipline: Economics, Regional Science
| Edward T. Hall- Title: Proxemic Theory, 1966
Spatial Concept: Proxemic Theory, social distance, personal space, spatial perception
Discipline: Anthropology & Archaeology, Communication Studies, Linguistics
| Torsten Hägerstrand- Title: Time Geography.
Spatial Concept: Spatio-temporal constraints on human activity patterns and individual space-time paths
Discipline: Geography, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning
| Mark Jefferson- Title: "Civilizing Rails", 1928.
Spatial Concept: Buffer zone, cathchment areas, zones of impact
Discipline: Geography
| Florence Kelley- Title: Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893
Spatial Concept: pattern analysis mapping of social conditions, maps for social advocacy
Discipline: Demography, Public Health, Sociology, Urban Studies, Womens Studies
| Valdimer Orlando Key- Title: Mapping Southern Politics, 1949.
Spatial Concept: electoral geography, spatial redistricting, ecological inference
Discipline: Demography, History, Political Science
| Hans Kurath- Title: Linguistic Atlas of the United States
Spatial Concept: geographical linguistics, isogloss mapping, speech areas and speech boundaries
Discipline: Anthropology & Archaeology, Area Studies, Linguistics
| Colin Loftin and Sally K. Ward- Title: Application of Spatial Autocorrelation in Sociology
Spatial Concept: spatial autocorrelation, spatial processes, neighborhood effects, scale dependency, weighting methods, spatial interaction
Discipline: Demography, Public Health, Sociology, Statistics
| Kevin Lynch- Title: City Elements Create Images in Our Mind, 1960
Spatial Concept: Place legibility, spatial imageability, cognition of urban built environment, mental maps
Discipline: Geography, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies, Other
| Bronislaw Malinowski- Title: Identifying the Kula Ring of the Trobriand Islanders:
The Role of Ethnographic Field Observation in Pattern Recognition
Spatial Concept: distance and social interaction, pattern recognition
Discipline: Anthropology & Archaeology, Area Studies
| Henry Mayhew- Title: London Labour and the London Poor, 1861
Spatial Concept: choropleth mapping, ecological relationship
Discipline: Criminology, Sociology, Other
| Ian McHarg- Title: Overlay Maps and the Evaluation of Social and Environmental Costs of Land Use Change
Spatial Concept: overlay mapping, multi-criteria route selection
Discipline: Environmental Studies & Policy, Urban & Regional Planning
| Melinda S. Meade- Title: Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 1977
Spatial Concept: Cultural ecology, population movement, spatial patterns of disease
Discipline: Environmental Studies & Policy, Geography, Public Health
| Richard Meier- Title: Communications Theory of Urban Growth, 1961.
Spatial Concept: spatial agglomeration, spatial interaction, urban centrality
Discipline: Communication Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies
| Charles Joseph Minard- Title: Mapping Napoleon's March, 1861.
Spatial Concept: Flow map, thematic mapping
Discipline: History, Statistics
| Robert Park and Ernest Burgess- Title: Urban Ecology Studies, 1925
Spatial Concept: Urban Ecology, spatial differentiation, concentric zone theory
Discipline: Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Pablo Picasso- Title: Cubism - A Revolution of Spatial Presentation in Artistic Expression (with parallels in cartography)
Spatial Concept: Multiple Perspectives in Two-Dimensional Visualization
Discipline: History, Other
| Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)- Title: Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth
Spatial Concept: Equal Area Projection, Longitude and Latitude, Sperical Earth Representation
Discipline: Geography, History
| Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer- Title: Culture Area Research and Mapping
Spatial Concept: Culture Areas, culture hearth
Discipline: Anthropology & Archaeology, Area Studies, Ethnic Studies, Geography, History
| Ernest George Ravenstein- Title: The Laws of Migration, 1885.
Spatial Concept: distance decay, migration, spatial interaction, movement, spatial dispersion
Discipline: Demography, Economics, Geography, Statistics
| Ellen Churchill Semple- Title: The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains, 1901
Spatial Concept: human-environment interactions, place
Discipline: Area Studies, Environmental Studies & Policy, Geography
| Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay- Title: The Social Disorganization Theory
Spatial Concept: spatial association and causation, urban area and neighborhood effects, urban social ecology, concentric zone theory
Discipline: Criminology, Demography, Ethnic Studies, Law & Society, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Georg Simmel- Title: The Sociology of Space
Spatial Concept: sociology of space; social distance
Discipline: Communication Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies
| G. William Skinner- Title: Marketing in Rural China, 1964-65.
Spatial Concept: centrality, settlement hierarchy, range of a good, periodic markets
Discipline: Area Studies, Economics, Urban Studies
| Lou Skoda and J.C. Robertson- Title: The Isodemographic Map of Canada, 1972.
Spatial Concept: Spatial data visualization, cartogram, isodemography
Discipline: Demography, Geography
| John Snow- Title: The London Cholera Epidemic of 1854
Spatial Concept: spatial pattern analysis, inference of spatial process
Discipline: Demography, Public Health
| Alma and Karl Taeuber- Title: Residential Segregation in U.S. Cities, 1965
Spatial Concept: segregation indices, mapping racial composition and change
Discipline: Demography, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Statistics, Urban Studies
| Charles M. Tiebout- Title: A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, 1956
Spatial Concept: Residential sorting due to differences in local government services; spatial spillovers
Discipline: Economics, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning
| Edward Tufte- Title: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983.
Spatial Concept: informational graphics
Discipline: History, Statistics
| Rupert B. Vance- Title: Space and the American South
Spatial Concept: region, spatial integration
Discipline: Demography, Geography, Sociology, Urban Studies
| Johann-Heinrich von Thünen- Title: Balancing Land-Use Allocation with Transport Cost
Spatial Concept: spatial gradients, spatial optimization
Discipline: Economics, Geography, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning
| Sam Bass Warner- Title: Modeling the Streetcar Suburbs, 1962.
Spatial Concept: urban accessibility and social class associations
Discipline: Demography, Economics, Geography, History, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies
| Alfred Weber- Title: Theory of the Location of Industries, 1909
Spatial Concept: industrial location, minimum-cost location, optimal location, agglomeration economies, Verignon frame
Discipline: Economics, Geography, Regional Science, Sociology
| Gordon R. Willey- Title: Settlement Patterns in Archaeology
Spatial Concept: Settlement patterns as clues to socio-political structures.
Discipline: Anthropology & Archaeology
| John Kirtland Wright- Title: Early Quantitative Geography, 1937
Spatial Concept: measuring trends and inequalities in spatial distributions
Discipline: Geography, Sociology, Statistics
| Lotfi Zadeh- Title: Fuzzy logic-Incoporating Real-World Vagueness
Spatial Concept: boundaries, regions
Discipline: Geography, Linguistics, Statistics, Other
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