Recent spatial_ucsb_csiss items

John Snow, The London Cholera Epidemic of 1854. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

By mapping the incidence of cholera deaths, Dr. John Snow was able to trace the spread of Cholera in 1854 to the pump at the corner of Cambridge and Broad Street in London. Inference from the spatial pattern supported his argument that water contamination was a major source of causation of the disease and spread of Cholera, and it illustrated the value of spatial analysis in solving social problems.

Kevin Lynch, City Elements Create Images in Our Mind, 1960. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In The Image of the City, Lynch documents and describes key elements in the built structure of a city that are important in the popular perception and efficient functioning of city. This pioneering study was based on field interviews and surveys in Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City. This research was instrumental in raising the profile of spatial thinking within planning and urban design.

Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Tufte addresses two major objectives in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information—to identify many of the mistakes and abuses common to informational graphics and to develop a general theory of data graphics to increase their efficiency and effectiveness.

Robert W. Fogel, The Argument for Wagons and Canals, 1964. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In Railroads and American Economic Growth, Fogle illustrates how the interpretation of economic history is enhanced through a spatial perspective. He uses distance buffers to represent ease of transport and to assess the likely impacts of regional economic expansion associated with different scenarios of change in transport technology.

Zvi Griliches, The Diffusion of Hybrid Corn Technology, 1957. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Griliches' research demonstrated that the adoption of new technologies like hybrid corn was not a single event, but was instead a series of developments that occurred at different rates across geographical space.

Charles M. Tiebout, A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, 1956. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Tiebout Hypothesis is that individuals reveal their preferences for high or low public services (and related high/low taxes) by "voting with their feet." Competition among jurisdictions results in homogeneous communities, with residents that all value public services similarly, such that, in equilibrium, no individual can be made better off by moving, and the market is efficient.

Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1861. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Mayhew approached his work on London Labour and the London Poor ethnographically, interviewing his subjects directly to render vivid biographical sketches of those who struggled to survive in Victorian London. He also completed a series of choropleth maps on the overall intensity of criminality, illiteracy, teenage marriage, and other social indicators. Mayhew's maps were among the earliest attempts to study crime using cartographic techniques.

Sam Bass Warner, Modeling the Streetcar Suburbs, 1962. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In his 1962 book Streetcar Suburbs, Sam Bass Warner, Jr., using Boston as an example, highlighed how suburbanization, the attendant abandonment of the urban landscape, and a lack of coherent planning contributed to social class segregation and dependence on long-distance commuting.

Rupert B. Vance, Space and the American South. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Vance paid close attention to the geographic patterning of economic and demographic factors across places. He was especially interested in what set the American South apart from the rest of America. His research explored ecological and geographic factors in Southern exceptionalism; the spatial basis of Southern migration; and the importance of regionalism.

Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer, Culture Area Research and Mapping. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The organization of human communities into cultural areas remains a common practice throughout the social sciences, drawing on the anthropological and geographical work of Ratzel, Wissler, and Sauer.

Lou Skoda and J.C. Robertson, The Isodemographic Map of Canada, 1972. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In 1972 Lou Skoda and J.C. Robertson published an isodemographic map (a cartogram) of Canada that represented a population-oriented rendering of the 1966 Canadian census divisions. The map was developed with a physical analog model that kept all of Canada together in a contiguous mass while preserving recognizable divisions and province outlines.

Gordon R. Willey, Settlement Patterns in Archaeology. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Willey's looked at archaeological evidence on a regional scale. He demonstrated this approach in Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Virú Valley, a work now recognized for changing the way that archaeologists view landscapes.

Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Space. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Georg Simmel developed many important insights on the social construction of space, linked to developments in urban ecology and communciation studies. These include concepts of personal space, social distance, and social boundaries.

Florence Kelly, Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In 1893 the U.S. Congress commissioned a Special Investigation of the Slums of Great Cities to assess the extent of poverty in urban areas. Florence Kelley led a related effort in Chicago to create a series of maps similar to Charles Booth's (1840–1916) maps of poverty in London. The objective was to provide graphic evidence of the urgent need to address poverty and other social problems.

Patrick Doreian, Modeling Sociological Processes Using Spatially Distributed Data. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Patrick Doreian is credited for hissignificant role in making fellow social scientists aware of spatial processes andfor illustrating the value of spatial methodologies in social science research.

Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Urban Ecology Studies, 1925. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In the 1920s, Park and Burgess developed a distinctive program of urban research at the University of Chicago. In projects focused on Chicago, they elaborated a theory of urban ecology that drew parallels with processes found in natural ecosystems, leading ultimately to the division of the urban space into distinctive ecological niches or "natural areas" in which people shared similar social characteristics.

Melinda S. Meade, Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 1977. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Meade synthesizes ideas from anthropology, ecology, medicine, and demography to construct an integrated model of the core dimensions of medical geography. This model sees health as the outcome of interactions among the dimensions of population, environment, and culture.

Vladimer Orlando Key, Mapping Southern Politics, 1949. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Key's book, Southern Politics in State and Nation, delved into the political practices of the American South and problems in the development of multiparty democracy across the region prior to the civil rights movement. It also represents an early use of maps to clearly depict spatial patterns of behavior and electoral geography that would have been invisible through traditional statistics and displays of data in tables.

Walter Christaller, Hierarchical Patterns of Urbanization. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

An overview of Christaller's Central Place Theory, one of the classic contributions to spatial thinking in geography and regional science.

Ian McHarg, Overlay Maps and the Evaluation of Social and Environmental Costs of Land Use Change. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

McHarg's landmark book, Design With Nature, presented an environmentally conscious approach to land use, and provided a new method for multi-criteria decision making over the location of controversial facilities, e.g., highways.

Peter Gould and Waldo Tobler, An Experiment in Geo-Coding. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This CSISS Classic documents a simple experiment that captures the importance of identifying precise locations in everyday life—mailing a postcard to a friend.

Grady Clay, The Reading of the American City, 1973, CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Clay's redefinition of spatial thinking in an urban environment made use of "Wordplay" to capture the dynamic interrelationships of things and places, as acharacteristic of American cities in the mid-twentieth century.

Mark Jefferson, "Civilizing Rails," 1928. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Jefferson provided early cartographic attempts to map the world's railroad networks, invoking concepts on the advance of civilization, and progress. While these concepts have been challenged, his use of graphic elements of buffers and catchment zones link to current practices in geographic analysis and transportation research.

G. William Skinner, Marketing in Rural China, 1964–1965. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

G. William Skinner's studies into rural Chinese economic systems displayed the value of spatially explicit theories, such as central place theory, in applied situations that served to explain or even fundamentally reshape our understanding of how social and economic systems are organized and function.

Bronislaw Malinowski, Identifying the Kula Ring of the Trobriand Islanders: The Role of Ethnographic Field Observation in Pattern Recognition. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Combining ethnographic field observation with theory (functionalism), Malinowski draws linkages and meaning from spatial patterns and social practices. He established an approach to research that endures in modern cultural anthropology.

Charles Joseph Minard, Mapping Napoleon's March, 1861. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Charles Joseph Minard's Napoleon map, along with several dozen others that he published during his lifetime, set the standard for excellence in graphically depicting flows of people and goods in space.

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Claudius Ptolemy helped bring geography to the forefront of scientific thought, his contributions influenced a broad range of disciplines to the importance of accuracy in locational measures and to the need for an equal-area perspective in evaluating spatial relationships among diverse phenomena and in making geographical comparisons.

Lotfi Zadeh, Fuzzy Logic Incorporating Real-World Vagueness. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Zadeh's paper on fuzzy sets introduced the concept of a class with unsharp boundaries and provided a new qualitative approach to the analysis of complex systems in which linguistic rather than numerical variables are employed to describe system behavior and performance.

Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay, The Social Disorganization Theory. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The social disorganization theory, developed by Shaw and McKay based on their studies of Chicago, has pointed to social causes of delinquency that seem to be located in specific geographical areas. Although the theory contributed to the understanding of delinquency, critics note that it does not explain why delinquency is concentrated in certain areas of a city.

Pablo Picasso, Cubism—A Revolution of Spatial Presentation in Artistic Expression (with parrallels in cartography), CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Cubism, method of portraying multiple dimensions onto a two dimensional canvas, is not unlike the task of the map maker in representing the earth in two dimensions. Parallels between Cubism and cartography are identified in this essay.

Ellen Churchill Semple, The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains, 1901. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Semple is recognized as a pioneer in the study of human-environment interaction. Her research also foreshadowed contemporary concerns with cultural and political ecology in the social sciences.

Leonhard Ludwig Finke, Medical Geography. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Finke (1747–1837) was a pioneer of medical geography, a medical officer, and physician in Germany who advanced ideas about environmental conditions and the need for regional and world perspectives for disease mapping.

Ernest George Ravenstein, The Laws of Migration, 1885. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In a paper to the Statistical Society in England in 1885, E. G. Ravenstein outlined a series of "laws of migration" that attempted to explain and predict migration patterns both within and between nations. The ideas derived from his work continue to inform studies of human migration more than a century later.

Torsten Hӓgerstrand, Time Geography. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Years after its introduction in the 1960s, Hägerstrand's time-geography model of society continues to inspire new ways of understanding human activity in space, and promises novel solutions for solving problems in the temporal organization and spatial development of human built environments.

Colin Loftin and Sally K. Ward, Application of Spatial Autocorrelation in Sociology. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Loftin and Ward introduce spatial autocorrelation as a way to take spatial interaction and spatial processes into consideration when social data depend on geographically defined units.

Alma and Karl Taeuber, Residential Segregation in U.S. Cities, 1965. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Taeubers demonstrated the value of census mapping of residential and educational segregation in the United States. Their early attempt to integrate quantitative segregation research and cartographic techniques (Negroes in Cities, 1965), used the dissimilarity index to compare residential segregation in 207 U.S. cities.

Vernor C. Finch, The "Fractional Code" for Land Use Mapping, 1933. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Finch played a major role in reshaping the way spatial information was cataloged and used piror to the development of computers. This essay details his uses of a fractional code for multi-variable mapping and land classification.

Hans Kurath, Linguistic Atlas of the United States. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Kurath's primary goal was to use the Linguistic Atlas to map the evolution of American English from the relatively "pure" forms of English brought to the United States by early settlers to the regional dialects that existed in the contemporary United States. He saw language patterns on maps derived from field surveys as a living record of events related to the growth of trade and transport systems, urbanization, and population movements.

Johann-Heinrich von Thünen, Balancing Land-Use Allocation with Transport Cost. CSISS Classics

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In 1826, Johann-Heinrich von Thünen published Der isolierte Staat ("The Isolated State") that included one of the first general models to describe the land use practices radiating out from a central market location in response to transport costs. His approach became a foundation for research in regional economic geography and optimiztion modeling for understanding and predicting both agricultural and urban land-use change.

Tobler's FlowMapper

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Geographical movement is of crucial importance. This is because much change in the world is due to movement; the movement of people, ideas, money, or material. One way of depicting and analyzing geographical movement is by way of geographical maps. In 2003 CSISS supported an effort to produce an interactive flow mapping program. The result is an updated Windows-based version of a program originally designed and programmed by Waldo Tobler in 1987. Tobler's original application was updated by David Jones using Microsoft Visual Basic.Net and SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphics) for map rendering. It requires as input locational coordinates and a table of interaction between places, place names, and a file of boundary coordinates. The program allows for the production of a total movement map shown by volume-scaled bands, net movement given by scaled arrows, or simultaneous two-way moves. This FlowMapper document also includes a set of papers by Waldo Tobler:

FlowMapper Tutorials—p....

GIS Cookbook

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The GIS Cookbook is a collection of simple descriptions and illustrations of GIS methods written with minimal GIS jargon. Recipes cover two GIS software platforms, ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 8/9.x. The target users are social scientists with an interest in introducing spatial thinking into their current research and also having some experience with computers but little to no exposure to GIS. The GIS Cookbook was prepared in 2002–2005 to serve the expanding community of social scientists wanting to apply GIS for research and teaching. This archival resource is intended for historical documentaion.

Those interested in learning basic applications of GIS, geographical mapping, and spatial analysis are advised to seek more recent tutorials based on newer software advances and web-based mapping tools.

Users of the CSISS GIS Cookbook may wish to download the full documentation to allow for internal links from the Table of Contents.

NCGIA Core Curricula in GIS/GIScience...

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science—Annual Report, Year 4

Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This report describes the research and instructional outcomes of the NSF-supported CSISS programs over the period 1 May 2002 to 30 April 2003. Specialist research meetings featured spatial analytic tools development and spatial analysis in health risk assessment. Training workshops focused on applications of GIS in the social sciences, geographically weighted regression, spatial pattern analysis, and map making and visualization of spatial data.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science—Annual Report, Year 3

Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This report describes the research and instructional outcomes of the NSF-supported CSISS programs over the period 1 July 2001 to 30 April 2002. These programs initiated two new book projects on spatial econometrics and on best practices in spatially integrated social science. National workshops offered training to social science scholars in applications of spatial data analysis, and specialist research meetings featured spatial analytic software development and location-based services.

Center for Spatially Integrarted Social Science—Annual Report, Year 2

Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The second annual report for the NSF-supported CSISS program describes initiatives in building national infrastructure in support of spatial analysis and spatial thinking in social science research and education. It covers the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 and summarizes specialist meetings on social equity and spatial externalities; workshops on multiagent spatial modeling, spatial pattern analysis, spatial data analysis and spatial regression. It also provides details about the CSISS software development of tools for exploratory spatial data analysis, and website development for dissemination of learning resources.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science—Annual Report, Year 1

Tue, 4 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This annual report for year one of the NSF-sponsored CSISS program covers the period 1 October 1999 to 30 June 2000. It describes the initial set of workshops on spatial analysis, plans for research-oriented specialist meetings, spatial analytical tools development, publications, and outreach efforts in support of building national-level infrastructure in support of spatial thinking across the social sciences.

Spatially Integrated Social Science

Wed, 8 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This document contains the chapter abstracts for the book—each chapter illustrating how the spatial perspective adds value and insight to social science research, beyond what traditional non-spatial approaches might reveal. The 21 chapters exemplify the founding principle for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS)—that the analysis of social phenomena in space and time enhances our understanding of social processes. The chapters offer substantive empirical content for illustrating the interpretation of specific spatial analytic approaches suited to advanced research in the social sciences and recognizing the importance of location, space, spatiality, and place.

Edward T. Hall, Proxemic Theory, 1966. CSISS Classics

Mon, 6 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Hall's concept of proxemics considers human uses of space within the context of culture. Implications relate to cross-cultural communication processes and to the design of built environments.

Joel Garreau, Edge Cities and the Nine Nations of North America. CSISS Classics

Mon, 6 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Edge City and The Nine Nations of North America reflect observations by a journalist about the social and political forces transforming the geography of contemporary North America. Garreau's analysis has intrigued both academic and nonacademic audiences, especially his concepts of regionalization and ideas about the urban-regional transformation of landscapes at local and continental scales.

Linked Index to CSISS Classics Collection

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

CSISS Classics provides summaries and illustrations of major contributions to spatial thinking in the social sciences. This collection focuses on research before 1980, with an attempt to capture and acknowledge the repository of spatial thinking in the social sciences, and related disciplines and professions, for the last few centuries

The Scope and Growth of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences

Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This report describes the results of a survey of social science jounals to document trends in the application of spatial approaches in different disciplines between 1990 and 2001. An appendix about the related CSISS web search engine and its controlled vocabulary is provided for those interested in the semantic and ontological foundations of this report regarding applications of geographical information science and spatial analysis in the social sciences.

Globalization in the World System: Mapping Change over Time

Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop assembled thirty scholars with substantive or methodological interest in the study of global-scale socioeconomic processes across time and space. The purpose of the meeting was to develop ideas for research projects on the structure and dynamics of globalization using new research technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial analysis methods (including network analysis), and sources of geographic information not usually employed by globalization researchers. This document provides the agenda, abstracts, and papers considered at the meeting, hosted by UC Riverside.

John Kirtland Wright, Early Quantitative Geography, 1937. CSISS Classics

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Wright was an early advocate of the adoption of quantitative statistical techniques in geographic study. In 1937 he published an article demonstrating how the Lorenz Curve could be applied to geographic areas in the investigation of inequality and for regional comparisons.

Alfred Weber, Theory of the Location of Industries, 1909. CSISS Classics

Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

With the publication of Über den Standort der Industrie (Theory of the Location of Industries) in 1909, Alfred Weber developed a general theory of industrial location. His model took into account spatial factors for finding the optimal location and minimal cost for manufacturing plants.

Richard Meier, Communications Theory of Urban Growth, 1961. CSISS Classics

Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Meier's Communications Theory of Urban Growth was one of the first works to recognize the importance of communications functions and networks in the spatial development and sustenance of urban areas.

Alice Coleman, Design Disadvantagement, 1985. CSISS Classics

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Coleman's Utopia on trial: Vision and reality in planned housing (1985) challenged planning concepts for public housing estates in the United Kingdom with ideas of defensible space, environmental design, and disadvantgement.

Constantinos Doxiadis, Ekistics, 1968. CSISS Classics

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Doxiadis sought to establish an interdisciplinary community of scholars for research on cities and the best ways to manage them. Many of his ideas about the science of human settlement (ekistics) and urban development have been integrated into mainstream academic and popular thought.

Charles Booth, Mapping London's Poverty, 1885–1903. CSISS Classics

Tue, 23 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Between 1886 and 1903 Charles Booth produced a remarkable series of maps of London carefully coded for social class with data gathered by visiting, literally, every street in London.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science—Poster

Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Conference poster displaying the primary programs offered through the UCSB Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science.

Agent-based Models of Land Use / Land Cover Change

Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

A workshop on Agent-based Models of Land Use / Land Cover Change in Santa Barbara (hosted by CSISS) took place prior to and in conjunction with the National Academy of Sciences’ Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity through Agent-Based Modeling. This took place at the Beckman Center, Irvine, California, 6-7 October 2001. This document features the schedule, summary of proceedings, and Position Papers by participants in the workshop.

GPS Tracking and Time Geography: Applications for Activity Modeling and Microsimulation, Position Papers

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) funded a Peer Exchange meeting in Santa Barbara, CA (10-11 October 2005) for travel demand forecasters, experts in travel behavior and GPS data collection, and geographers to discuss potential approaches on using GPS vehicle traces for defining space-time paths and prisms to be used in activity modeling and microsimulation for transportation analysis. This document features the position papers prepared by participants prior to the meeting.

Spatial and Social Interactions in Economics, Introduction

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This meeting brought together researchers on spatial and social interactions in the economics profession with researchers in geography and related fields to explore developments in geographic information science (GIS) and in new spatial econometric tools for possible uses for economic investigations of social interactions.

GIS Training Program for Population Scientists—NICHD Proposal

Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This document is the proposal for an NICHD-supported training program on GIS and Population Science that was implemented by the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University and the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science at UC Santa Barbara in 2005-2007. Focused on early career scholars, 2-week-long workshops explored the practices and issues of using spatial data in such fields as demography, epidemiology, and public health.

Advanced Spatial Analysis Training Program for Population Scientists—NICHD Proposal

Thu, 28 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This document is a proposal submitted to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 2008 to establish a training program in advanced spatial analysis in support of the population sciences and spatial demographic research. The proposal was funded, allowing for week-long intensive research training programs at Pennsylvania State University and UC Santa Barbara that served researchers and advanced students from institutions across the United States in the summers of 2008-2011. The program went beyond basic GIS training to focus on advanced spatial analysis, including spatial regression modeling, geographically weighted regression, multi-level modeling, and spatial pattern analysis.

Inequality and Equity, Introduction and Position Papers

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This meeting gathered social scientists from diverse disciplines to share insights and questions regarding the role of space in their respective research areas, as well as the possibilities of strengthening and integrating research on inequality/equity issues through the spatial perspective.

Spatial Externalities, Introduction and Position Papers

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The specialist meeting on spatial externalites took place in Santa Barbara in January 2001. This statement outlines the key issues facing the introduction of spatial methodlogies in economics and presents the objectives of the meeting for invited participants to consider.

Location-Based Services, Introduction and Position Papers

Tue, 31 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This meeting (December 2001 in Santa Barbara), sponsored by CSISS and UCGIS explored the advent of location-based services and their implications and significance for the social sciences and for geographic information science. Specific issues considered included: the use of LBS to support primary data capture in the social sciences, requirements for new analytic tools to visualize and investigate such data, privacy and related issues associated with LBS data, and new forms of social behavior enabled by LBS.

Spatial Analysis of Health Risk Perception, Agenda and Position Papers

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This interdisciplinary meeting of 20 behavioral science and health researchers explored the connections among social risk theory, cultural constructions of health and risk, and spatial analysis of health. The purpose of the meeting was to establish common grounds for new interdisciplinary research proposals that bring together spatial analysis with work looking at perception of health risk. The agenda and position papers of papers of participants are presented in this document.

Spatial Data Analysis Software Tools, Introduction and Position Papers

Wed, 25 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The objectives of this meeting were:(1) to demonstrate, showcase, and benchmark state-of-the-art tools and to facilitate interaction among specialized software developers; (2) to promote a dialogue among the wide range of developers about priorities and guidelines for software design, data and model standards, inter-operability, and open environments, including specific open source standards for spatial data analysis; and (3) to introduce CSISS' open source software development initiative, the "OpenSpace" project. A brief introduction is followed by position papers from meeting participants.

Spatial Externalities, Final Report

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The objectives of the specialist meeting on spatial externalities were two-fold: (1) to assess the status and future of “spatial thinking” in economics in general, and (2) in the context of the study of spatial externalities in particular. Specifically, participants were asked to address what is the perceived added value of spatial models and spatial methods, to identify critical impediments and to suggest the most promising research directions where a spatial perspective can provide added value to the solution of economic questions. The meeting was organized around three main topics: theoretical perspectives on spatial externalities; methodological perspectives on spatial externalities; and spatial analysis in economic research.

Inequality and Equity, Overview

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The purpose of the meeting was to identify ways in which the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science could better achieve its goal of supporting the development and dissemination of spatial theories, tools, concepts and techniquesin the social sciences, with reference to studying and addressing problems of social inequality and equity. The meeting of scholars took place in Santa Barbara, CA, November 12-14, 2000. The conceptual issues addressed included incorporating temporal considerations into spatial analysis, data problems in spatial approaches to social science, and problems realted to data access, statistical analysis, and visualization.

Location-Based Services, Final Report

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In December, 2001 the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS; http://csiss.org) and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS; http://www.ucgis.org) held a specialist meeting to explore location-based services, and their implications and significance for the social sciences and for geographic information science. There are a number of reasons for believing that LBS will have significant impact on the social sciences, stemming from three basic arguments. First, LBS today represents only the beginning of a series of technological innovations that can potentially impact society in numerous ways, ranging from surveillance and the invasion of personal privacy, to technologically induced changes in human spatial behavior, the role of location in social networks, and the spatial structuring of retail and other services. Second, LBS have the potential to provide novel sources of data to social science, including detailed information about daily...

GPS Tracking and Time-Geography: Applications for Activity Modeling and Microsimulation, Final Report

Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Using as motivation the recently collected large amounts of GPS data from a variety of transportation studies in the United States and Europe, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) funded a Peer Exchange meeting in Santa Barbara, CA (10-11 October 2005). The intent of this Peer Exchange was to assemble experts to discuss potential approaches on using GPS vehicle traces for defining space-time paths and prisms to be used in activity modeling and microsimulation for transportation analysis. This Peer Exchange brought together travel demand forecasters, experts in travel behavior and GPS data collection, and geographers to discuss different approaches to analyzing space-time prisms for transportation forecasting needs. This report documents the discussions and recommendations from the Peer Exchange.

Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE)—brochure

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This brochure describes the SPACE program (2003-2009) and its National Education Workshops to provide undergraduate social science instructors with basic skills in GIS and spatial analysis, exposing them to the latest techniques, software, and learning resources.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science—Final Report

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) was an infrastructure program designed to facilitate communication and sharing of research ideas and methodologies among researchers in the social and behavioral sciences. The CSISS approach to integrating knowledge across disciplines and paradigms was achieved by broadening the user base of spatially integrated social science (SISS)—cartographic visualization, geographic information systems (GIS), pattern recognition, spatially sensitive statistical analysis, and place-based search methodologies. The Center’s programs made use of Web technologies to promote accessibility to these tools and to related information, foster opportunities for scholars to learn about and master spatial methodologies, and provide intellectual foci for engaging a broad range of scholars in intensive discussion and program development.CSISS was founded in 1999 with the aid of a five-year award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under...

Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE)—Final Report

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE) was funded under the national disseminationtrack of the National Science Foundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program. The objective of SPACE was to initiate systemic change in undergraduate education for the social sciences by focusing on the value of spatial thinking and associated technologies—geographic informationsystems (GIS) and tools for spatial analysis. The primary activities for achieving SPACE goals were eleven week-long residential workshops to provide undergraduate instructors with basic skills in GIS and spatial analysis, and to introduce them to the latest techniques,software, and learning resources. This report describes these workshops and the outcomes for enhancing undergraduate social science education through spatial analysis.

Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement—poster overview

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This poster summarizes the goals and workshop programs associated with SPACE and its approach to enhancing spatial perspectives in curriculum development for undergraduate social science education. The poster also presents a summary profile of more than 200 program participants by discipline, gender, and minority representation; and, it describes the results of entry and exit surveys.

Spatial Perspectives on Analysis for Curriculum Enhancement (SPACE)—Proposal to NSF

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This NSF Proposal (0231263: NSF 02-043 CCLI National Dissemination) helped launch a program to enhance the exposure of spatial analytic thinking and spatial technologies into the social science undergraduate curriculum. The proposal develops the goals, programs, and outreach initiatives associated with national professional development workshops for undergraduate faculty. Partner institutions included UC Santa Barbara (Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research and the Department of Geography), Ohio State University (Department of Geography), and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

Survey of CSISS Program Applicants and Participants, 2000‒2002

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In February 2003, the UCSB Social Science Survey Center conducted a survey of applicants to CSISS programs for years 2000 – 2002. The objectives of the survey were to ascertain: (1) the extent to which spatial analysis and spatial thinking have developed in the social sciences in recent years; (2) the perceived needs of researchers in the social science community; and (3) the success of CSISS programs in building infrastructure for the dissemination of spatial thinking in thesocial sciences. The survey attempted to reach all individuals who applied to participate in CSISS workshops and specialist meetings (741) during the first three years of the Center’s operations.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science--Proposal to NSF

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This proposal to the National Science Foundation led to the establishment of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science in October 1999. The proposal outlines the intellectual and operational framework for the Center in its activities in research, education, and national dissemination of spatial perspectives across the social sciences.

CSISS Strategic Plan

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The strategic plan for national dissemination of spatial analysis across social science disciplines featured programs for training spatial social scientists, publications demonstrating application of spatial thinking in different disciplines, and the development of new spatial analytic tools for processing geo-referenced information.

Spatial Social Science--for Research, Teaching, Application, and Policy

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Spatial Social Science recognizes the key role that spatial concepts, such as distance, location, proximity, neighborhood, and region play in human society; promotes research that advances the understanding of spatial patterns and processes; and invokes powerful principles of spatial thinking.