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CSISS Classics

The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS) was founded in 1999 with support from the National Science Foundation under its program to promote research infrastructure in the social and behavioral sciences. CSISS programs (1999–2013) recognized the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research.

The foundations of spatial analysis span many disciplines over many generations of researchers and practitioners. CSISS Classics provides summaries and illustrations of major contributions to spatial thinking in the social sciences. Primary emphasis is given to research before 1980, with an attempt to capture and acknowledge the repository of spatial thinking in the social sciences for the last few centuries. The summaries, along with key references, are intended as guides for those interested in exploring intellectual inheritance from previous generations.

There are 48 publications in this collection, published between 2001 and 2015.

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science: Linked Index to CSISS Classics Collection, 2015

Schroeder, Matt: Rupert B. Vance, Space and the American South. CSISS Classics, 2006

Nuernberger, Andrea: Leonhard Ludwig Finke, Medical Geography. CSISS Classics, 2005

Corbett, John; Rebich, Stacy: G. William Skinner, Marketing in Rural China, 1964–1965. CSISS Classics, 2004

Corbett, John; Rebich, Stacy: Richard Meier, Communications Theory of Urban Growth, 1961. CSISS Classics, 2004

Fearon, David: Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Space. CSISS Classics, 2004

Sifuentes, Jorge; White, Eric: Gordon R. Willey, Settlement Patterns in Archaeology. CSISS Classics, 2004

Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science: Peter Gould and Waldo Tobler, An Experiment in Geo-Coding. CSISS Classics, 2003

Corbett, John: Alice Coleman, Design Disadvantagement, 1985. CSISS Classics, 2003

Corbett, John: Ernest George Ravenstein, The Laws of Migration, 1885. CSISS Classics, 2003

Corbett, John: Lou Skoda and J.C. Robertson, The Isodemographic Map of Canada, 1972. CSISS Classics, 2003

Corbett, John: Sam Bass Warner, Modeling the Streetcar Suburbs, 1962. CSISS Classics, 2003

Farrrell, Rob: Patrick Doreian, Modeling Sociological Processes Using Spatially Distributed Data. CSISS Classics, 2003

Sprague, Ben: Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy): Representation, Understanding, and Mathematical Labeling of the Spherical Earth. CSISS Classics, 2003

White, Eric: Bronislaw Malinowski, Identifying the Kula Ring of the Trobriand Islanders: The Role of Ethnographic Field Observation in Pattern Recognition. CSISS Classics, 2003

Agarwal, Pragya: Lotfi Zadeh, Fuzzy Logic Incorporating Real-World Vagueness. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Alma and Karl Taeuber, Residential Segregation in U.S. Cities, 1965. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Constantinos Doxiadis, Ekistics, 1968. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Joel Garreau, Edge Cities and the Nine Nations of North America. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Melinda S. Meade, Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 1977. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, Urban Ecology Studies, 1925. CSISS Classics, 2002

Brown, Nina: Zvi Griliches, The Diffusion of Hybrid Corn Technology, 1957. CSISS Classics, 2002

Corbett, John: Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 1983. CSISS Classics, 2002

Corbett, John: Grady Clay, The Reading of the American City, 1973, CSISS Classics, 2002

Corbett, John: Robert W. Fogel, The Argument for Wagons and Canals, 1964. CSISS Classics, 2002

Corbett, John: Vladimer Orlando Key, Mapping Southern Politics, 1949. CSISS Classics, 2002

Crosier, Scott: Pablo Picasso, Cubism—A Revolution of Spatial Presentation in Artistic Expression (with parrallels in cartography), CSISS Classics, 2002

Fearon, David: Alfred Weber, Theory of the Location of Industries, 1909. CSISS Classics, 2002

Fearon, David: Charles Booth, Mapping London's Poverty, 1885–1903. CSISS Classics, 2002

Stoddard, Chris: Charles M. Tiebout, A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures, 1956. CSISS Classics, 2002

Sundilson, Ethan: Kevin Lynch, City Elements Create Images in Our Mind, 1960. CSISS Classics, 2002

Wong, Carlin: Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay, The Social Disorganization Theory. CSISS Classics, 2002

Ying, Sam: Colin Loftin and Sally K. Ward, Application of Spatial Autocorrelation in Sociology. CSISS Classics, 2002

Agarwal, Pragya: Walter Christaller, Hierarchical Patterns of Urbanization. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Edward T. Hall, Proxemic Theory, 1966. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Ellen Churchill Semple, The Anglo-Saxons of the Kentucky Mountains, 1901. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Florence Kelly, Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Friedrich Ratzel, Clark Wissler, and Carl Sauer, Culture Area Research and Mapping. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Hans Kurath, Linguistic Atlas of the United States. CSISS Classics, 2001

Brown, Nina: Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1861. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: Charles Joseph Minard, Mapping Napoleon's March, 1861. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: Ian McHarg, Overlay Maps and the Evaluation of Social and Environmental Costs of Land Use Change. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: John Kirtland Wright, Early Quantitative Geography, 1937. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: Mark Jefferson, "Civilizing Rails," 1928. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: Torsten Hӓgerstrand, Time Geography. CSISS Classics, 2001

Corbett, John: Vernor C. Finch, The "Fractional Code" for Land Use Mapping, 1933. CSISS Classics, 2001

Crosier, Scott: Johann-Heinrich von Thünen, Balancing Land-Use Allocation with Transport Cost. CSISS Classics, 2001

Crosier, Scott: John Snow, The London Cholera Epidemic of 1854. CSISS Classics, 2001

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