Computing Geographically

Bridging Giscience and Geography

David O'Sullivan

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Building Bridges

- A History of My Spaces

- Plan of the Book

2. Location and Space

- The Nature of Space

- Space in Giscience

- Prospects for Relative/Relational Giscience

3. Scale and Projection

- Scale in Geographical Theory

- Scale in Giscience

- The Salience of Scale

4. Place and Meaning in Space

- From Space to Place-

- Place in Giscience

5. Lines and Areas sample

- Drawing Lines

- Territory and Territoriality

- When the Map Is and Is Not the Territory

- The Arbitrariness of Boundaries

- Moving On from Geometry

6. Relations, Networks, Flows

- Relations, Space, and Place

- Graph Drawings as (Possible) Projections

- Networks Are Flows Frozen in Place

7. Time and Dynamics

- Time and Space: A Coin with Two Sides

- Hägerstrand's Time Geography

- Limits to Time Geography

- Mobilities and Human Dynamics

- From Time to Dynamic Processes

8. Process and Pattern

- Process Philosophies

- The Place of Complexity Theory

- Simulation Models

- Process and Pattern Revisited

9. Doing Giscience Doing Geography

- Common Ground: A Space to Think

- Doing Giscience: Representation as a Process

- Toward Doing Differently

- Finally

References

Index

About the Author