Tag Archives: Mapping

Cartographies of Global Connectivity in Interwar Japan

Posted on 14. November 2019 by Global Urban History

By Jeffrey C. Guarneri, University of Wisconsin-Madison Japan’s interwar period (1918-1941) was a time of profound changes in Japan’s ports of international trade, cities which simultaneously helped to drive Japan’s rise to world economic power status during World War I … Continue reading →

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Imagine Lagos: Mapping a Pre-Colonial West African City

Posted on 28. March 2017 by Global Urban History

By Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi, University of California, Riverside Africa’s cities are now among the fastest growing in the world. But how well are their pre-colonial origins understood? Recent research on Lagos’s past reveals a thriving, indigenous yet cosmopolitan urban community, one … Continue reading →

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Mapping as Process: Food Access in Nineteenth-Century New York

Posted on 17. May 2016 by Global Urban History

Gergely Baics, Barnard College, Columbia University Geographic information system (GIS) has changed social science and humanities research through spatial analysis. It has reinvigorated the spatial turn, which has swept many fields in the past decades, improving their empirical foundations, methodological … Continue reading →

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