Place is a concept that can hardly be formally captured at the moment, as it is unclear how
instances of places can formally be represented and how conclusions about places can …

The space–place dichotomy has long been discussed in geography, psychology,
philosophy, and more recently in geographic information science. The attempts to integrate …

This editorial presents a special collection of papers addressing the concept of place and its
use in geographical information science (GIScience). The concept of place is a topic of …

Progress toward developing a GIS of place can only follow from an understanding of what
place is, and this understanding draws on geographical theory. Here—following Agnew …

The spatial representation of a city is typically formed by top‐down jurisdictional boundaries.
A parallel approach would be to consider representing a city based on platial characteristics …

1 Der Begriff der Lexikometrie ist in der französischsprachigen Wissenschaftslandschaft im
Austausch zwischen (post-) strukturalistisch und vielfach explizit diskurstheoretisch …

In this article, we propose a model to identify and visualize family structures across a
database of over 70,000 Jewish individuals living in Budapest in 1945 in the immediate …

The lack of a well‐established and unified place theory across disciplines is decelerating its
formalization, evolution, and especially its pragmatic implications and applicability. In this …

Both qualitative research in geography and visual geographies have an ambivalent
relationship to maps and cartographic methods. Reasons for this include discourse …

People interact with each other in space and time. Improved understanding of human
interactions in spatial, temporal, and social dimensions are highly beneficial for research …