Mapping Society : The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography

• Author: Professor Laura Vaughan BA MSc PhD, Professor of Urban Form and Society and the Director of the Spac.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : UCL Press,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online volume

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society...

Table of Contents

• Mapping the spatial logic of society
• Disease, health and housing
• Charles Booth and the mapping of poverty
• Poverty mapping after Charles Booth
• Nationalities, race and religion
• Crime and disorder
• Conclusions
• Appendix: The spatial syntax of society.