Modelling the City

<p><i>Modelling the City</i> focuses on European towns and cities analysing the opportunities and limitations of modelling of urban space.</p><p>This book examines how urban space from the past is discovered explained and presented. It discusses the multitude of historical sources mediating the past urban space and the structural technical and epistemological issues raised around building a domain ontology including continuity and change within urban forms and functions.</p><p>Presentation of a formal domain ontology in spatial humanities makes this book unique and worth reading. It is strongly recommended to readers interested in the linked open data approach to research data standards in Digital Humanities urban planning and old maps.</p>