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Access Maps Revisited: Understanding The Spatial Arrangement of Nineteenth-Century Soup Kitchens (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hillier and Hanson proposed a syntax of space to understand the built environment in their 1984 book The Social Logic of Space. This syntax is expressed through a matrix or flow diagram (an access map) which represents access and movement within space. As a representational tool, access maps have been under-used, even in historical...