This site compiles research into urban and suburban settlement patterns using maps and mapped data as primary sources. The site provides insight into how space syntax analysis of historical maps can shed light on the spatial, social and economic structure of the East End in the 19th century.Funded jointly by an EPSRC Continuation Platform Grant {GR/S64561/01} to support Public Engagement with Science with additional support from Museum of London. This site compiles research conducted by Dr Laura Vaughan into urban and suburban settlement patterns using maps and mapped data as primary sources. The research is based on theories that suggest that the urban layout can itself have an effect on social outcomes. The site provides insight into how space syntax analysis of historical maps can shed light on the spatial, social and economic structure of the East End in the 19th century. The site uses some of the wide range of historical maps owned by the Museum of London to illustrate how social exclusion is the outcome of an emergent, complex spatial process. The site demonstrates how spatial scientific research can analyse this complexity and shed light on the contribution of urban form to social change through time.
www.space.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/projects/mappingthelabyrinth/