The theory and methods of space syntax can help to rebalance the prevailing cultural perspective, which views maps as ideological representations, with an analytical approach that emphasizes maps as sources for understanding space and spatial relationships embedded in built forms. The quantitative descriptions of urban street networks produced by space syntax analyses can be used to formulate and test hypotheses about patterns of urban movement, encounter and socio-economic activity in the past that can help in the interpretation of other historical source materials to give an overall account of urban spatial culture. In this article, the authors explain how space syntax, a theory and method originally developed in the field of architectural research, is making a distinctive contribution to research in social and urban history. The key principles of the method are explained by clarifying the relationship of space syntax to HGIS (Historical Geographical Information Systems) and through a worked example of research undertaken into political meeting places. A survey of research into the urban history of the nineteenth-century city using space syntax is used to highlight a number of important methodological themes and also demonstrates the range of innovative contributions that this interdisciplinary approach is able to advance. A final, theoretical, section reflects on maps and the practice of ‘mapping’ from a space syntax perspective.

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映射空间文化：空间句法对 19 世纪城市历史研究的贡献

空间句法的理论和方法可以帮助重新平衡盛行的文化视角，将地图视为意识形态的表现，并采用一种强调地图作为理解嵌入在建筑形式中的空间和空间关系的来源的分析方法。由空间句法分析产生的城市街道网络的定量描述可用于制定和检验关于过去城市运动、相遇和社会经济活动模式的假设，这有助于解释其他历史资料以给出一个整体城市空间文化研究。在这篇文章中，作者解释了空间句法，一种最初在建筑研究领域发展起来的理论和方法，如何为社会和城市历史的研究做出独特的贡献。通过阐明空间句法与 HGIS（历史地理信息系统）的关系并通过对政治会议场所进行的研究的工作示例来解释该方法的关键原则。使用空间句法对 19 世纪城市的城市历史进行的研究调查被用来突出一些重要的方法论主题，也展示了这种跨学科方法能够推进的创新贡献的范围。最后的理论部分从空间句法的角度反映了映射和“映射”的实践。使用空间句法对 19 世纪城市的城市历史进行的研究调查被用来突出一些重要的方法论主题，也展示了这种跨学科方法能够推进的创新贡献的范围。最后的理论部分从空间句法的角度反映了映射和“映射”的实践。使用空间句法对 19 世纪城市的城市历史进行的研究调查被用来突出一些重要的方法论主题，也展示了这种跨学科方法能够推进的创新贡献的范围。最后的理论部分从空间句法的角度反映了映射和“映射”的实践。