Class Notes for October 15

October 15, 2012 · by · in Announcements, Class Notes, Maps and Spatial Analysis

Group Projects:

  • Secondary source: a book or article
  • Sharing workload
  • Will focus on group projects on Wednesday
“GIS often ends up emphasizing not the constructed-ness of space but rather its given-ness, which is fine if you are setting out to bomb something or go out to eat, but not so good if you are trying to understand a wider spectrum of human constructions of space over time.” – Richard White

Guest Speaker:

Prof. John Maciuika, Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, Baruch College. 

Reading Review:

Richard White, “What is Spatial History?” Spatial History Lab: Working paper; Submitted February 1, 2010.

  • The Spatial Turn
  • Collaborative process of creating “visualizations”
  • “Space itself is historical” [it is something that humans produce over time, especially through movement]
  • Relation of representational space to actual space — can be revealed through layering of data
    • Representations of space and representational space
  • Mapping as a tool for *doing research,* not just communicating information