Modelling the City - Formal Ontology and Spatial Humanities

This book focuses on European towns and cities, analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space. 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.

List 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 Poznä 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

About the author

Wies¿awa Düy 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.

Product details

• Authors: Wieslawa (Polish Academy of Sciences Duzy
• Assisted by: Wiesława Duży (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032695877
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3269587-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Spatial Humanities Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Urban & municipal planning, Cartography, map-making & projections, Interdisciplinary studies, Human Geography, Urban communities, Cartography, map-making and projections, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Geographical information systems (GIS) & remote sensing, Geographical information systems, geodata and remote sensing, Urban communities / city life