CSISS Classics in Demography

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. For discplines other than Demography see the full CSISS Classics list.

Your help is requested in suggesting topics, key papers, and schools of thought that should be represented in this collection - please send these to the CSISS Classics editor, Don Janelle janelle@geog.ucsb.edu.

CSISS CLASSICS: SPATIAL INNOVATORS AND INNOVATIONS BEFORE 1980

Charles Booth

Title: Mapping London's Poverty, 1885-1903
Spatial Concept: Mapping and social surveys, neighborhood effects
Discipline: Criminology, Demography, Geography, History, Law & Society, Political Science, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies

Patrick Doreian

Title: Modeling Sociological Processes Using Spatially Distributed Data
Spatial Concept: spatial autocorrelation, regressive-autoregressive modeling
Discipline: Sociology, Statistics

Leonhard Ludwig Finke

Title: Leonhard Ludwig Finke: Medical Geography
Spatial Concept: global perspective
Discipline: Geography, Public Health

Joel Garreau

Title: Edge Cities and the Nine Nations of North America
Spatial Concept: Regionalization and regional synthesis of change
Discipline: Area Studies, Demography, Geography, Regional Science, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies

Torsten Hägerstrand

Title: Time Geography.
Spatial Concept: Spatio-temporal constraints on human activity patterns and individual space-time paths
Discipline: Geography, Regional Science, Urban & Regional Planning

Florence Kelley

Title: Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893
Spatial Concept: pattern analysis mapping of social conditions, maps for social advocacy
Discipline: Demography, Public Health, Sociology, Urban Studies, Womens Studies

Valdimer Orlando Key

Title: Mapping Southern Politics, 1949.
Spatial Concept: electoral geography, spatial redistricting, ecological inference
Discipline: Demography, History, Political Science

Colin Loftin and Sally K. Ward

Title: Application of Spatial Autocorrelation in Sociology
Spatial Concept: spatial autocorrelation, spatial processes, neighborhood effects, scale dependency, weighting methods, spatial interaction
Discipline: Demography, Public Health, Sociology, Statistics

Henry Mayhew

Title: London Labour and the London Poor, 1861
Spatial Concept: choropleth mapping, ecological relationship
Discipline: Criminology, Sociology, Other

Melinda S. Meade

Title: Medical Geography and Human Ecology, 1977
Spatial Concept: Cultural ecology, population movement, spatial patterns of disease
Discipline: Environmental Studies & Policy, Geography, Public Health

Richard Meier

Title: Communications Theory of Urban Growth, 1961.
Spatial Concept: spatial agglomeration, spatial interaction, urban centrality
Discipline: Communication Studies, Sociology, Urban Studies

Ernest George Ravenstein

Title: The Laws of Migration, 1885.
Spatial Concept: distance decay, migration, spatial interaction, movement, spatial dispersion
Discipline: Demography, Economics, Geography, Statistics

Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay

Title: The Social Disorganization Theory
Spatial Concept: spatial association and causation, urban area and neighborhood effects, urban social ecology, concentric zone theory
Discipline: Criminology, Demography, Ethnic Studies, Law & Society, Sociology, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies

G. William Skinner

Title: Marketing in Rural China, 1964-65.
Spatial Concept: centrality, settlement hierarchy, range of a good, periodic markets
Discipline: Area Studies, Economics, Urban Studies

Lou Skoda and J.C. Robertson

Title: The Isodemographic Map of Canada, 1972.
Spatial Concept: Spatial data visualization, cartogram, isodemography
Discipline: Demography, Geography

John Snow

Title: The London Cholera Epidemic of 1854
Spatial Concept: spatial pattern analysis, inference of spatial process
Discipline: Demography, Public Health

Alma and Karl Taeuber

Title: Residential Segregation in U.S. Cities, 1965
Spatial Concept: segregation indices, mapping racial composition and change
Discipline: Demography, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Statistics, Urban Studies

Rupert B. Vance

Title: Space and the American South
Spatial Concept: region, spatial integration
Discipline: Demography, Geography, Sociology, Urban Studies

Sam Bass Warner

Title: Modeling the Streetcar Suburbs, 1962.
Spatial Concept: urban accessibility and social class associations
Discipline: Demography, Economics, Geography, History, Urban & Regional Planning, Urban Studies

John Kirtland Wright

Title: Early Quantitative Geography, 1937
Spatial Concept: measuring trends and inequalities in spatial distributions
Discipline: Geography, Sociology, Statistics