The Application of GIS Viewshed Analysis to Roman Urban Studies: the Case-Study of Empúries, Spain

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Kaiser ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Viewshed Analysis ◽  
Application Of Gis

Using Viewshed Analysis to Explore Settlement Choice: A Case Study of the Onondaga Iroquois

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Past Behavior ◽  
Viewshed Analysis ◽  
Settlement Location ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
And Control ◽  
Statistical Results ◽  
Critical Resources

A multitude of factors, ranging from environmental to ideological, determine where human settlements are placed on the landscape. In archaeological contexts, finding the reasons behind settlement choice can be very difficult and often requires the use of ethnographic analogies and/or modeling in a geographic information system (GIS). Archaeologists have used one particular GIS-based method, viewshed analysis, to examine site features such as defensibility and control over economic hinterlands. I use viewshed analysis in this case study to determine how the natural and political landscapes affected the settlement location choices of the Late Woodland and early Historic Onondaga Iroquois. Proximity to critical resources and defensibility both factored into the decision of where communities would place villages. Although this study shows that resources, such as productive soils, had a more significant effect on settlement choice, Iroquois communities were also taking measures to maintain the defensibility of their villages. This examination displays how GIS analyses in archaeology can go beyond the statistical results and help us understand past behavior.

scholarly journals Development and application of GIS-based assessment of land-use impacts on water quality: A case study of the Kharaa River Basin

AMBIO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 1154-1168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunsmaa Batbayar ◽  
Martin Pfeiffer ◽  
Martin Kappas ◽  
Daniel Karthe
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Land Use Impacts ◽  
Application Of Gis

Street as a big geo-data assembly and analysis unit in urban studies: A case study using Beijing taxi data

2017 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 152-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Zhu ◽  
Ninghua Wang ◽  
Lun Wu ◽  
Yu Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies

Urban Politics and Policy in a Southern Urban Planet

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-178
Author(s):  
Garth Myers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Global South ◽  
City Government ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Global North ◽  
Policy Mobilities ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation Strategies

This chapter examines the urban studies literatures on urban politics and policy mobilities, from postcolonial southern perspectives. Analysis of urban politics is in flux within global urban studies. For years, the predominant focus of global North urban studies in analyzing urban politics resided with understanding growth machines and urban. Recently, there has been a general change in focus from discreet units at scale (i.e. a city government) to a ‘relational’ approach. What does this work look like, viewed from the global South? How do urbanists from the global South or those focused on its cities approach these arenas of scholarship? The chapter seeks answers to these questions with specific policies in mind. specific policies examined include participatory budgeting, bus rapid transit, enclave urbanization (new towns or satellite cities), sister city relationships, and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Case study material from Hartford, San Juan, Zanzibar and Dongguan helps to show different ways in which South-South connectivities shape politics, governance and urban cultures at both ends.

Application of GIS for Population Analysis Case Study of Zwarah, Libya

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-621
Author(s):  
Tarik B. Benomar ◽  
Fuling Biant ◽  
Abdolaziz Muosa Shalgam
Keyword(s):  
Population Analysis ◽  
Application Of Gis
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