A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This chapter reminds geographers as well as readers trained in other sciences of the disciplinary fundamentals on which geography modeling can be based, particularly to deal with the complex objects that are cities and territories. It retraces the successive postures of geographers faced with the possibilities of modeling, and outlines a set of regularities that can be more easily modeled among the objects that geography studies. The history, the forms of political and economic organization of societies, and their cultural creations are always part of the explanations proposed in general geography or in local or regional monographs. However, geography itself provides a modelable dimension to these constructions, to which the other disciplines of the natural and social sciences are articulated as in any explanation of complex social systems. In the long history of the human species, the prolonged effects of distance between isolated groups have paradoxically resulted in territorial drifts.
This chapter reminds geographers as well as readers trained in other sciences of the disciplinary fundamentals on which geography modeling can be based, particularly to deal with the complex objects that are cities and territories. It retraces the successive postures of geographers faced with the possibilities of modeling, and outlines a set of regularities that can be more easily modeled among the objects that geography studies. The history, the forms of political and economic organization of societies, and their cultural creations are always part of the explanations proposed in general geography or in local or regional monographs. However, geography itself provides a modelable dimension to these constructions, to which the other disciplines of the natural and social sciences are articulated as in any explanation of complex social systems. In the long history of the human species, the prolonged effects of distance between isolated groups have paradoxically resulted in territorial drifts.
Complexity in Geography
Pumain, Denise (editor)
Geographical Modeling ; 1-30
2019-12-17
30 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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