The Theoretical and Methodological Utility of Space and Spatial Statistics for Historical Studies: The Nazi Party in Geographic Context

Flint, Colin

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“…The analysis of urban system may include a wide spectrum of research-e.g., health research (e.g., Robinson 2000;Jerrett et al 2003), urban crime (e.g., Craglia et al 2000;Craglia et al 2001;Ceccato et al 2002), political-historical processes (e.g., Flint 2002), and merging urban ecology and socioeconomics (McDonnell and Pickett 1990;Grove and Burch 1997;McDonnell et al 1997;Zipperer et al 1997;Gomiero et al 1999;Uy and Nakagoshi 2008); estimation of urban population (Zhang 2003); urban change analysis and the modelling of growth (Bahr 2004;Hardin et al 2007;Hathout 2002;Herold et al 2003a;Jat et al 2008;Jensen and Im 2007;Liu and Lathrop 2002;Ridd and Liu 1998;Yang 2002;Yuan 2008); land-use/land-cover evaluation (Alphan 2003;Lopez et al 2001;Xiao et al 2006;Yang and Lo 2002;Yuan et al 2005); urban heat-island research (Kato and Yamaguchi 2005;Weng 2001); and many others. Gatrell and Jensen (2008) cite several references to describe how remote sensing data have been used in urban areas, and highlight some research areas where remote sensing may continue to aid urban geographical inquiry and some potential pitfalls.…”

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Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

Bhatta

2010

Advances in Geographic Information Science

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The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: Bauer, ThomasPrinted on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Chandrani and Bagmi Preface Urban growth and sprawl is a pertinent topic for analysis and assessment towards the sustainable development of a city. Environmental impacts of urban growth and extent of urban problems have been growing in complexity and relevance, generating strong imbalances between the city and its hinterland. The need to address this complexity in assessing and monitoring the urban planning and management processes and practices is strongly felt in the recent years.Determining the rate of urban growth and urban spatial configuration, from remote sensing data, is a prevalent approach in contemporary urban geographic studies. Maps of growth and a classified urban structure derived from remotely sensed data can assist planners to visualise the trajectories of their cities, their underlying systems, functions, and structures. There are currently a number of applications of analytical methods and models available to cities by using the remote sensing data and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, in specific-for mapping, monitoring, measuring, analysing, and modelling.The international participants are increasingly engaged with the urgent environmental tasks for the sustainable development of their urban regions, the planning challenges faced by the local authorities, and the application of remote sensing data and GIS techniques in the analysis of urban growth to meet these challenges. However, despite the promise of new and fast-developing remote sensing technologies, a gap exists between the research-focused results offered by the urban remote sensing community and the application of these data and methods/models by the governments of urban regions. There is no end of interesting scientific questions to ask about cities and their growth, but sometimes these questions do not match the operational problems and concerns of a given city. This necessitates more focused research and debate in the areas covered by this title. Kolkata, India B. Bhatta vii Acknowledgments I am grateful to all the authors of the numerous books and research publications mentioned in the list of references of this book. I have consulted these literatures, picked up the relevant materials, synthesised them and put them in an organised manner with simple language in this book. I express my gratitude to the teachers, researchers and organisations who have contributed a lot to the quality and information content of this book. I am very much thankful to

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Section: Urban Analysismentioning

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Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

Bhatta

2010

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“…Despite saving lives and meeting the unique needs of injection drug users, through the lens of governmentality, SIS can be perceived as an important apparatus of surveillance and discipline. Marking a shift from the "punitive repression of injection drug use" (Fischer 2004, 354), to one of harm reduction, since the late 1980s, the implementation of SIS have been a direct response to the global increase in the urban concentration of homelessness, crime, and litter (Flint 2002). Thus, in order to manage the risks associated with this urban demographic, SIS arose in an attempt to reshape urban spaces into sociopolitical entities of "competitiveness, commodification and attractiveness.…”

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Governmentality: A Theoretical Evaluation of Supervised Injection Sites and Consequent Police Practices

Scher¹

2019

JIRR

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This essay looks to present governmentality as a theoretical framework through which to evaluate supervised injection sites (SIS) as a ‘political technology’ and police as extensions of this ‘technology’. Firstly, I will discuss how SIS arose under discourses of ‘public health’ and ‘harm reduction’ to fit varying political ideologies as a technology to cleanse public spaces of ‘disorderly’ drug use, thus safeguarding the urban environment as an attractive, civil and commercial space. Despite saving lives and meeting the unique needs of injection drug users, SIS can be understood as spaces of exclusion, immediately linking people to a marginalised population. Secondly, I will present the ways in which SIS can be contextualized as a powerful tool of surveillance and discipline, imposing the ‘responsibilization’ of individuals’ drug use and lifestyle habits, construing drug users as requiring surveillance and discipline to successfully conform to certain ‘acceptable’ behavioural traits. Lastly, once again through the lens of governmentality, I will demonstrate that police practises ironically work in opposition to the aim of SIS as a technology of control as they often deter drug users from frequenting SIS. Although governmentality can be philosophically conceptualized as an infringement on human freedom, in this instance, police practises need to be evaluated to increase their role in promoting SIS use. In light of the national health crisis in Canada, pertaining to injection drug use, if government control, surveillance and discipline results in the saving of thousands of lives, then in this occasion it is useful and necessary.

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“…This holds true especially with historical spatial data (Flint, 2002;Gregory & Ell, 2005;St-Hilaire, Moldofsky, Richard, & Beaudry, 2007;DeBats, 2008). The application I shall develop is the variation over time of level sets of the schooling incidence over the French territory.…”

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Morphological Transition of Schooling in 19th-Century France

Bonneuil¹

2014

The Journal of Mathematical Sociology

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The transformation over time of level sets-the sets of states for which a given function takes a given value-has no reason to be regular, especially in social science, where the structure of these level sets of a given variable may be altered by a fluctuating demography or disrupted by unexpected events, and where the actors contribute to shaping their space through investment policies. The pioneering construction of graphic derivatives of set-valued maps renews the understanding of dynamic level sets in social science. The exemplary case of schooling in 19th-century France shows the set derivatives of level sets and illustrates how the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 disturbed the directions taken in 1867. A comparison of the observed changes of level sets with those observed under rational theoretical policies leads to the conclusion that the actors behaved with the ambition of optimizing the overall schooling incidence while reducing the gap between boys and girls.

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The Theoretical and Methodological Utility of Space and Spatial Statistics for Historical Studies: The Nazi Party in Geographic Context

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

Governmentality: A Theoretical Evaluation of Supervised Injection Sites and Consequent Police Practices

Morphological Transition of Schooling in 19th-Century France

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