Social Atlas Research Articles

Review zu: Dimitris Ballas, Danny Droling and Benjamin Hennig, The social atlas of Europe

The Social Atlas of Europe, as the title suggests, takes on a job of mapping social issues in Europe using mainly cartograms. The book includes the European Union (EU) member and candidate countries as well as the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Schengen countries. The thematic coverage is as impressive as the geographic coverage: identity and culture, education, employment, industry and occupation, health, politics, economics, environment, social cohesion and policy; 21 different data sources are listed, among which EU-related official statistics appear to dominate, but the authors also make use of specific studies such as the European Values Survey1 or the very general ones such as the CIA World Factbook2, and occasionally Wikipedia or various newspapers and organizations.

GIS in SEQ 2021 ‐ more than maps

The views of the suthors of this paper are not necessarily the views of the Department, the Office, SEQ 2021 or its stakeholders. Since the authoring of this paper the SEQ 2021 unit has been within a new Queensland Government policy commitment, the Office of Urban Management. SEQ 2021 is the three‐year regional planning process for South East Queensland (SEQ), which is jointly funded by the South East Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils and the Queensland State Government. The aim of the program is to develop a new regional plan by late‐2004, which will guide the actions of all levels of Government, Community and Industry to 2026 to achieve a sustainable future for the region. This includes balancing the natural, built, social and economic environments so that they can be enjoyed by future generations. The use of spatial information has been an integral part of SEQ regional planning since 1990 ‐ providing a valuable resource for the planning process. In the current round of SEQ regional planning, the SEQ 2021 GIS Unit provides a service, which facilitates, coordinates and leads the use of spatial information to increase SEQ 2021 stakeholder understanding of the region's issues and, as a result, build the capacity and confidence of stakeholders to participate in the planning process. The Unit has undertaken an innovative program of information creation and dissemination to achieve these outcomes. This program has three main themes; the first is making existing spatial information increasingly available to stakeholders, for example, the SEQ Social Atlas, SEQ Regional Interests Mapping Series and special purpose mapping. The second is promoting spatial information to stakeholders through planning information seminars and expos. The last theme is facilitating the exchange of spatial data between State, Regional and Local Government Agencies. These approaches of increasing spatial information availability, marketing and promotion, and sharing have raised awareness in the amount and applicability of location‐based information to support SEQ regional planning. As a result, SEQ 2021 stakeholders are becoming better informed. However, a full exploitation of the power of location‐based information has not yet been realized in SEQ 2021 due to data licensing arrangements, which regulate SEQ 2021's use of spatial information in the public arena. If these were to be relaxed, there is the potential to further enhance informed regional decision‐making by the wider SEQ community.

Социальный атлас российских регионов (НИСП)

Социальный атлас российских регионов (НИСП)

Mapping the Metropolis - Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+284. $74.95 (cloth); $32.00 (paper). - Material London, ca. 1600. Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x+393. $65.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). - London

Mapping the Metropolis - Londinopolis: Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London. Edited by Paul Griffiths and Mark S. R. Jenner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+284. $74.95 (cloth); $32.00 (paper). - Material London, ca. 1600. Edited by Lena Cowen Orlin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. x+393. $65.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). - London

London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas

London in the 1690s: A Social Atlas

Reviews: IMF Lending to Developing Countries: Issues and Evidence, Housing and the Environment: A New Agenda, a New Social Atlas of Britain, Cities of Pride: Rebuilding Community, Refocusing Government, Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st-Century Metropolis, Future Drive: Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible no More, Theories of the Information Society, Ethnicity:

Reviews: IMF Lending to Developing Countries: Issues and Evidence, Housing and the Environment: A New Agenda, a New Social Atlas of Britain, Cities of Pride: Rebuilding Community, Refocusing Government, Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st-Century Metropolis, Future Drive: Electric Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation, Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible no More, Theories of the Information Society, Ethnicity:

The population of Britain in the 1990s: a social and economic atlas

This atlas aims to portray key features of the human geography of Britain in the 1990s. It covers a wide range of topics which we have grouped under seven broad headings relating in turn to population distribution and composition birth place and ethnicity employment and education life chances housing transport and facilities and political geography. In addition the atlas has the secondary objective of illustrating how different types of maps and measures can portray a variety of different topics. (EXCERPT)

Review: Building Democracy. Community Architecture in the Inner Cities, Visual Databases in Architecture, TERRA 2. Understanding the Terrestrial Environment: Remote Sensing Data Systems and Networks, a New Social Atlas of Britain, Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes: Essays by a Sceptical Optimist, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Review, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to

Review: Building Democracy. Community Architecture in the Inner Cities, Visual Databases in Architecture, TERRA 2. Understanding the Terrestrial Environment: Remote Sensing Data Systems and Networks, a New Social Atlas of Britain, Growth, the Environment and the Distribution of Incomes: Essays by a Sceptical Optimist, Environmental Impact Assessment: A Comparative Review, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age: From Method to

A New Social Atlas of Britain

A New Social Atlas of Britain

Reviews: Review Essay: The State We're in, a New Social Atlas of Britain, the British Economy in Transition. From the Old to the New?, Patterns of Development: Resources, Policy and Economic Growth, Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan

Reviews: Review Essay: The State We're in, a New Social Atlas of Britain, the British Economy in Transition. From the Old to the New?, Patterns of Development: Resources, Policy and Economic Growth, Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan

A New Social Atlas of Britain

A New Social Atlas of Britain

Social Policy Digest

The class system in England is becoming more entrenched as society increasingly divides between rich and poor and north and south, according to a social atlas published by the School for Advanced Urban Studies (SAUS) at the University of Bristol. (94—24/2—1.1). Britain needs a far-reaching programme of economic and social reforms to avert the damaging consequences of a deepening divide between rich and poor, says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into Income and Wealth, whose report was published in February. They found that income inequality has grown further and faster during recent years in Britain than in any comparable industrialised country. In July 1994 there were approximately 570,000 Family Credit (FC) recipients. A study from the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) showed that some families entitled to FC do not claim it for a variety of reasons. The number of lone parents receiving FC rose to almost 244,000 in July 1994, a rise of almost 13 per cent since July 1993.

New York City in the 1980s: A Social, Economic, and Political Atlas.

New York City in the 1980s: A Social, Economic, and Political Atlas.

Hong Kong. C. P. Lo; Classics in Urban History. Michael H. Ebner, series editor; New York City in the 1980s: A Social, Economic, and Political Atlas. John H. Mollenkopf; Zhongguo chengshi yu quyu fazhan: Zhanwang ershiyi shiji (Urban and Regional Development in China: Towards the 21st Century). Yue-man Yeung, editor (in Chinese)

<i>Hong Kong</i>. C. P. Lo; <i>Classics in Urban History</i>. Michael H. Ebner, series editor; <i>New York City in the 1980s: A Social, Economic, and Political Atlas</i>. John H. Mollenkopf; <i>Zhongguo chengshi yu quyu fazhan: Zhanwang ershiyi shiji (Urban and Regional Development in China: Towards the 21st Century)</i>. Yue-man Yeung, editor (in Chinese)

The urban social atlas movement in Australia

SUMMARY Completion of the Atlas of population and housing, 1981 census series (Australia. Division of National Mapping et al.1983, 1984a‐f) marks the culmination of a decade of work in the urban social atlas field. But over that period there is evidence of increasing divergence of purpose, from initially twin objectives, theoretical and applied, to the avowedly applied focus of recent efforts. The future would appear to be seen by many practitioners in purely applied terms. Recent developments in expert systems and artificial intelligence, however, will require the reforging of links between conceptual thinking and technical advancement.

Adelaide: a social atlas, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Census, Volume 5, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 41 pages, 11 tables, 77 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00, ISBN 0 642 51602 2

<i>Adelaide: a social atlas</i>, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Census, Volume 5, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 41 pages, 11 tables, 77 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00, ISBN 0 642 51602 2

Sydney: a social atlas, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Census, Volume 2, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 45 pages, 34 tables, 112 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00, ISBN 0 642 51578 6

<i>Sydney: a social atlas</i>, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Census, Volume 2, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 45 pages, 34 tables, 112 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00, ISBN 0 642 51578 6

Perth: a social atlas, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Cencus, Volume 6, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 44 pages, 5 &amp; tables, 76 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00 ISBN 0 642 51610 3

<i>Perth: a social atlas</i>, Atlas of Population and Housing, 1981 Cencus, Volume 6, Division of National Mapping and the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in association with the Institute of Australian Geographers, Canberra, 1984. 300 x 425 mm, ix and 44 pages, 5 &amp; tables, 76 figures, spiral binding, card covers, $25.00 ISBN 0 642 51610 3

A Social Atlas of Central Lancashire

A Social Atlas of Central Lancashire

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:CITIZEN TO SOLDIER: Australia before the Great War: Recollections of Members of the First A.I.F. Edited by J.N.I. Dawes and L.L. RobsonTHE FEMINISTS: Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia, 1840–1920. By Richard J. EvansA GROUP CALLED WOMEN: Sisterhood and Symbolism in the Feminist Movement. By Joan CassellA PORTRAIT OF MARGINALITY: The Political Behavior of the American Woman. Edited by Marianne Githens and Jewel I. RestageRACE RELATIONS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A Comparative Survey 1770s‐1970s. By K.R. HoweT.J. RYAN: A Political Biography. By D.J. MurphyPOINTS AND POLITICS: A History of the Electrical Trades Union of Queensland. By Archie DawsonMUNGO'S CANBERRA. By Mungo MacCallumNEW FEDERALISM IN AUSTRALIA: Rhetoric or Reality? By A. Peachment and G.S. ReidTOWARDS A NATIONALLY INTEGRATED HEALTH‐WELFARE SYSTEM FOR AUSTRALIA. By Michael CourtMELBOURNE STUDIES IN EDUCATION 1977. Edited by Stephen Murray‐SmithA PLACE OF DIGNITY: Report of a Survey of Homeless People and Homeless Persons Assistance Centres. Published by Department of Social SecurityGOVERNMENT REGULATION AND THE PRINTED MEDIA INDUSTRY. By Kenneth W. Wiltshire and Charles H. StokesTHE CONTROL OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN A FEDERATION: Canadian and Australian Experience. By Garth StevensonAUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN INDONESIA: A Case Study. By Kate ShortADELAIDE AT THE CENSUS 1971: A Social Atlas. By Blair Badcock, Dean Jaensch and Michael WilliamsA NATION FOR A CONTINENT: The History of Australia 1901–1975. By Russel WardBRITISH PATERNALISM AND AFRICA 1920–1940. By Penelope HetheringtonISLANDS AND EMPIRES: Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia. By Ernest S. DodgeCOMMUNIST PARTY POWER IN KAMPUCHEA (CAMBODIA): Documents and Discussion. Edited by Timothy Michael CarneyCHANGING IDENTITIES IN MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Edited by David J. BanksPOLITICAL CHANGE IN JAPAN. By Taketsugu TsurutaniJAPAN, CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD ECONOMY: Toward a Re‐interpretation of East Asian Development ca 1600 to ca 1918. By Frances V. MoulderAGRARIAN STRUCTURES AND AGRARIAN REFORM: Exercises in Development Theory and Policy. By S.1. CohenMALAYS AND MODERNIZATION: A Sociological Interpretation. By Tharn Seong CheeTHE CONGRESS IN TAMILNAD: Nationalist Politics in South India, 1919–1937. By David ArnoldTHE NEW INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM. Edited by Robert A. Mundell and Jacques J. PolakINTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A Policymaker Focus. By Robert L. WendzelTHE WORST DISASTER: The Fall of Singapore. By Raymond Callahan.THE SOUTHERN OCEANS AND THE SECURITY OF THE FREE WORLD: New Studies in Global Strategy. Edited by Patrick WallTHE FRENCH POLITY. By William SafranNAPOLEON AND THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS: The completed portion of Macaulay's projected History of France, from the Restoration of the Bourbons to the Accession of Louis Philippe. By Thomas Babington MacaulayPOLAND IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By M.K. DziewanowskiPOLITICAL CULTURE AND POLITICAL CHANGE IN COMMUNIST STATES. Edited by Archie Brown and Jack GrayWINTER INTO SPRING: The Czechoslovak Press and the Reform Movement, 1963–1968. By Frank L. KaplanTHE HUNGARIAN LABOR SERVICE SYSTEM 1939–1945. By Randolph L. BrahamTRADITION VERSUS REVOLUTION: Russia and the Balkans in 1917. By Robert H. JohnstonC.P. TREVELYAN 1870–1958: Portrait of a Radical. By A.J.A. MorrisSOCIAL CONTROL IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITAIN. Edited by A.P. DonajgrodzkiCOLLECTIVE BARGAINING: What You Always Wanted to Know about Trade Unions and Never Dared to Ask. By Clive Jenkins and Barrie ShermanBY COLOUR OF LAW: Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660–1689. By Howard NennerREFORM AND REFORMATION: England 1509–1558. By G.R. EltonTHE POLITICAL WORKS OF JAMES HARRINGTON. Edited by J.G.A. PocockTHE LOCKE READER: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a general introduction and commentary. By John W. YoltonMARX AND EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AND CHINA. By Ronald F. PriceAN INFANTILE DISORDER? The Crisis and Decline of the New Left. By Nigel YoungPOLITICAL PARADOXES AND PUZZLES. By Arun BosePOLITICAL SOCIOLOGY. A Macrosociology of Politics. By Edward W. LehmannFEUERBACH. By Marx W. WartofskyMARX'S ‘CAPITAL’ AND CAPITALISM TODAY. Volume One. By Antony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst and Athar HussainDER ‘FABIER’ EDUARD BERNSTEIN: Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des evolutiončren Sozialismus. By Helmut HirschBERNSTEINS KONSTRUKTIVER SOZIALISMUS: Eduard Bernsteins Beitrag zur Theorie des Sozialismus. Thomas MeyerSCANDAL SENSATION AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY: The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890–1914. By Alex HallIM SCHATTEN DER ARBEITERBEWEGUNG: Zur Geschichte des Anarchismus in Osterreich und DeutschlandTHE IMPACT OF HITLER: British Polltics and British Policy 1933–1940. By Maurice CowlingGERMANY IN THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST. 1870–1914. Edited by John A. Moses and Paul M. Kennedy