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Using GIS to Document, Visualize, and Interpret Tokyo’s Spatial History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Loren Siebert
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Social science historians bring a wide range of topical interests and methodological skills to the investigation of historical conditions. Those with an interest in the changing distribution and locational relationships of social, demographic, economic, political, cultural, physical, and other phenomena may now be considering the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for historical analysis. As an urban form historian and mapping scientist who uses GIS to document, visualize, and interpret spatial history, I am writing this account of my development of a GIS spatial history of Tokyo with the hope that it will convey the benefits and challenges of using GIS for historical research.

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Special Issue: Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History
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Social Science History , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History , fall 2000 , pp. 537 - 574
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2000 

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